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YALE    MEN    ON    TOP. 

Under  the  titlie  "A  Notable  Yale  Vol- 
■.v.me,"  the  Oakland  DAILY  T-RIBUNE 
j^Jias  the  followang: 

',  The  Jiartford  (Conn.)  Courant,  owned 
|by  United  States  Senator  Joseph  R.  Haw- 
fjay,  'iiiakts  this  deiscriiJtion  of  tl;e  Vigen^ 
|ttiMiial  Yale  Class  Book  of  1S67: 
I  "A  model  claps  book  is  that  of  thA class 
top  IS'tIT,  Yale,  which  ha;--  b«;  ?n  preiJared  by 
,tht  secretary,  William  H.  Morise,  now  of 
^ihe  Cons:re.-is;onaI  Library  at  .Washington. 
..To  the  observer  ^he  n\o.st  interesting  fea- 
tture  i-!  the  illustratiosis.  The  secretary 
nap -grouped  on  each  page  two  half-tone 
picttire.'-';  ome  of  the  tOa.ssmate  as  he  ap- 
pe/ired  when  his  picture  was  taken  in 
1867,  and  the  other  as  he  looks  ir  his  latest 
i:p-to-date  photograph.  It  is  the  before- 
■  Ri'd-alfter  taking  of  the  experience  of  life, 
and  it  is  a  most  intere-sling  study  even  to 
/thope  who  do  not  know  the  mief." 
;  "The  clas.s  secretary,  Mr.  Morse,  was 
•aided  in  this  sumptuous  fe-jture  of  his 
work  by  his  classmates,  the  Hon.  Wil- 
liam B.  Davenpart  of  Brooklyn.  Congress- 
man Thomas  Hedge  oif  Burlington,  Iowa 
and  United  Slates  Senator  George  Pea- 
body  AVetmore  of  Rhode  Island.  Among 
•the  physiognomies  thus  portrayed  in  this 
interesting  fashion  aie  those  of  J-udge 
James  M.  Allen,  counsel  tor  the  Bank  of 
California  amd  the  Sharon  estate,  of  Con- 
gressman Francis  G.  Newlands  of  San 
I-rancisco,  Nevada  and  iWa-shlngton^  D. 
C..  and  of  Henry  A.  Chittenden  of  this 
city. 

"In  the  group  'also  of  Yale  men  who 
have  attained  prominence  are  William 
:Henry  Bishop,  the  novelist,  now  occupy- 
ing the  chair  of  lyiterature  and  Romance 
Languages  in  Yale;  ex- Judge  and  ex- 
(  ongressm.in  Rr.'iert  De  Fore.-,t  O^  Bridge- 
port. Connecticut:  Hon.  James  G.  Flami- 
ers,  the  leader  of  the  Wi.sconsin  .bar;  the 
late  Judge  John  Showalter  of  Chicago- 
Oeorge  Adee.  recognized  by  Yale  of  men 
ol  all  generations  as  the  "Father  of   Vale 

/"'*,l'.',?^'"   ^'I'^l   Nelson  P.   Hulst,   Ph     D 
of      Milwaukee,  one  of  the  most  eminent 
metallurgLsts  of  the  country  and  the  most 
successful  iron  mine  expe.rt  and  own^r  of 
our  Central  West. 


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UNIVEHSITT 


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"REPORT 

of  the 

TRIGINTENNIAL  MEETING 

ivUh  a. 

biographical  and  Statistical  ^T^cord 

of  the 

Class  of  1867,    Yale 


t867—f897 

Ky/P  ev  Ilia  odoi} 


NEW  YORK 

JOHN  G.  C.  BONNEY,  PRINTER 

320  PEARL  STREET 


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'  So  may  we  come  for  many  a  year, 

Through  smiles  and  tears  with  spirits  blithe — 
A  loyal  band  of  classmates  dear, 
Till  Time  for  us  hangs  up  his  scythe." 

{Bruce' s  poetn  at  Vigintennial.) 


PREFACE. 


My  Dear  Classmates: 

If  any  apology  is  necessary  for  the  long  delay  incident  to  the  preparation  of 
the  "Trigintennial"  Record,  a  word  as  to  its  arrangement  will  convince  you  that 
time  and  labor  have  been  the  two  important  factors  in  accomplishing  the  work. 

The  previous  Class  Records,  published  in  1870,  '73,  'yy  and  '87,  have  been  al- 
most entirely  revised,  to  admit  of  interesting  Class  data  and  items. 

The  order  of  arrangement  in  the  biographical  sketch  of  each  member  em- 
braces : 

(a)  The  name  of  his  father  and  mother,  and  the  place  and  time  of  his  birth. 

(b)  Where  he  fitted  for  College. 

(c)  A  short  sketch  of  his  Ancestry. 

(d)  What  occupation  he  has  been  engaged  in  since  graduating  or  leaving 
the  Class,  up  to  the  present  time. 

(e)  His  marriage,  the  birth  of  children,  what  schools  they  attended,  etc. 
Also  the  deaths  that  have  occurred  in  his  family. 

(f)  The  College  Societies  he  belonged  to,  and  the  honors  and  rank  he  ob- 
tained while  in  College. 

The  photographs  of  each  member,  so  far  as  I  have  been  able  to  obtain  them, 
form  an  important  feature  of  the  book. 

The  plan  of  having  two  photographs  of  each  member  on  one  page,  the  one 
representing  him  as  he  looked  when  he  graduated  and  the  other  as  he  now  looks, 
had  its  origin  with  the  Class  of  '62,  and  our  Committee  adopted  their  idea. 

If  the  record  shall  prove  as  interesting  to  you  as  it  has  to  me  during  its 
preparation;  if  in  perusing  its  pages  fond  memory  shall  recall  many  a  forgotten 
circumstance  or  event  in  the  lives  of  your  Classmates — it  will  more  than  repay 
your 

SECRETARY. 


or  THS 

,   "CTNIVERSITYj 

HISTORY, 


CLASS  OF  SIXTY-SEVEN, 
YALE. 

The  Class  of  1867  entered  Yale  College  Wednesday,  September  i6th,  1863.  with  one  hundred 
and  thirty-eight  members,  representing  twenty-five  different  States,  the  District  of  Columbia,  Danish  West 
Indies,  and  one  foreign  country. 

During  the  Freshman  year  eight  others  joined  the  Class,  making  the  whole  number  one  hundred  and 
forty-six      Oi  these,  two — Bartlett  and  Darling —  died;  and  nineteen  left  during  the  first  year. 

The  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  who  survived  to  commence  Sophomore  year  were  joined  by  six 
others,  increasing  our  number  to  one  hundred  and  thirty-one.  Of  these  additions,  two  were  suspended 
for  one  year  and  one  was  dropped  from  the  roll.  Thirty-five,  in  all,  left  during  our  second  year,  so  that 
after  Biennial  the  Class  only  numbered,  all  told,  with  additions  and  losses,  ninety-six. 

At  the  close  of  Sophomore  year  we  suffered  a  severe  loss  in  the  death  of  Second  Lieutenant  Edwin 
C.  Pratt,  of  the  Eighth  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry,  who  left  us  early  in  the  Spring  of  1865,  to  join  the  Union 
forces.  He  died  from  exposure  in  front  of  Petersburg  on  the  3d  of  July,  1865.  He  was  a  man  of  high 
intellectual  powers,  and  gave  promise  of  a  bright  future. 

At  the  commencement  of  Junior  year,  by  the  addition  of  twelve  men,  we  numbered  just  one  hundred 
and  eight,  but  at  the  close  we  lost  seven,  including  one  more  by  death — Harpin  Meigs  I-um,  who  was  acci- 
dentally drowned    while  on  his  Summer  vacation  at  Prairie  du  Chien,  Wisconsin,  August  30th,   1866. 

Senior  year  found  us  numbering  one  hundred  and  one  members,  and  we  had  not  more  than  entered 
upon  the  year  when  the  news  reached  us  of  the  death  of  Samuel  Dyer  Allen,  who  had  left  us  in  June,  1866. 
Ill-health  caused  him  to  seek  the  Burning  Springs  of  West  Virginia,  and  while  there  he  was  stricken  down 
with  typhoid  fever  and  died  December  14th,  1866.  This  was  the  fifth  death  the  Class  had  sustained  during 
our  four  years'  course.     One  entered  the  Class  and  two  left  during  the  year. 

On  the  i8th  of  July,  1867,  one  hundred  members  of  the  Class  received  the  degree  of  B.  A. 
Four  who  left  us  during  the  course  have  since  received  the  Academic  degree  of  A.  M.  from  Yale,  and 
have  been  enrolled  with  the  Class,  making  our  total  on  the  Triennial  one  hundred   and   four. 

Besides  the  one  hundred  and  thirty-eight  who  entered  Freshman  year,  additions  increased  the 
whole  number  to  one  hundred  and  sixty-five,  and  of  the  one  hundred  who  graduated  in  1867,  eighty-one 
entered  at  the  beginning  of  the  course. 

There  are  about  thirty-five,  or  about  one-third  of  the  Class,  whose  fathers  and  brothers  were  College 
graduates.  Of  the  fathers  who  had  sons  in  '67,  eleven  received  the  degree  of  B.  A.,  while  sixteen  graduate* 
and  six  non-graduates  have  had  brothers  in  '67. 

The  whole  number  connected  with  the  Class  during  the  four  years'  course  was  165.  Of  these  Phil- 
lips Academy,  Andover,  furnished  twenty-one,  Hopkins  Grammar  School  ten.  General  Russell's  Military 
Academy  seven,  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  twelve.  The  following  institutions  sent  four:  Guilford, 
Institute,  Connecticut;  Overheiser's  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  Hartford,  Conn  ; 
and  Claverack  Institute,  Hudson,  N.  Y.  The  following  sent  three:  New  Haven  High  School,  Worcester 
High  School;  Stanmore  School,  Sandy  Springs,  Md. 


The  following  sent  one:  Edwards  Place  School,  Stockbridge,  Mass.;  Washington  Academy,  Salem, 
Mass.;  Roxbury  Latin  School;  Bridgeport  Academy,  Conn.;  Woodward  High  School,  Cincinnati,  O. ;  West 
Branch  High  School,  Jersey  Shore,  Pa.;  Western  University  of  Pennsylvania;  Mt.  Pleasant  Academy,  Sing 
Sing,  N.  Y. ;  Lind  University,  Lake  Forest,  111.;  Kenosha  High  School,  Wis.;  Brooklyn  Polytechnic;  Cleve- 
land Central  High  School,  O. ;  Troy  High  School,  N.  Y. ;  New  Hampshire  Conference  Seminary;  Mays- 
ville  Seminary,  Ky. ;  Knox  College,  Galesburg,  111. ;  Oberlin  College,  O. ;  Easton  Academy,  Conn. ;  Massillon 
Union  School,  O. ;  Wesleyan  University,  O.;  Peekskill  Military  Academy,  N.  Y. ;  Wabash  College,  Ind.; 
Golden  Hill  Institute,  Bridgeport,  Conn.;  Westminster  College,  New  Wilmington,  Pa.;  Dayton  Central  High 
School,  O. ;  Weymouth  High  School,  Old  Lyme,  Conn.;  Erie  Academy,  Pa.;  Moravia  Institute,  N.  Y.;  Nash- 
ville High  School,  Tenn. ;  Lawrenceville  Academy,  N.  J.;  Lowville  Academy,  N.  Y. ;  and  a  few  others. 

Some    forty   or   forty-five   of   the    Class   received   private   instruction. 

The  Class  recited  during  its  college  course  to  twelve  professors  and  six  tutors.  Of  these,  ten  pro- 
fessors and  one  tutor  have  died,  leaving  at  this  date  only  five  tutors  and  two  professors  surviving. 

During  Freshman  year  the  Class  recited  Greek  to  Professor  Hadley,  Latin  to  Tutor  A.  W.  Wright, 
Euclid  to  Tutor  Nolen,  Algebra  and  Latin  Prose  composition  to  Tutor  Wilcox,  and  History  to  Tutor  Wheeler. 

Sophomore  year:  Greek  to  Tutor  Wheeler  and  Professor  Packard,  Latin  to  Tutor  Gibbs,  Mathematics 
— all  branches — to  Professor  Newton,  Rhetoric  to  Professor  Northrop,  Lectures  on  Elocution  by  Professor 
Bailey,  and  Lectures  in  the  Laboratory  by  Professor  Loomis. 

Junior  year:  Natural  Philosophy  to  Tutor  Gibbs,  Latin  to  Professor  Thacher,  English  History  to  Pro- 
fessor Northop,  Greek  to  Tutor  Dexter,  Calculus  to  Professor  Newton,  German  and  French  to  Professor 
W.   D.  Whitney,  Logic  to  Professor  Porter,  and  Astronomy  to  Professor  Loomis. 

Senior  year:  Political  Economy,  Guizot's  History  of  Civilization,  Lieber's  Civil  Liberty,  Butler's  An- 
alogy, Law  of  Nations,  Constitution  of  the  United  States,  to  Professor  Woolsey;  Moral  Science,  Hamilton's 
Metaphysics,  Law  of  Love  and  Love  as  a  Law,  Paley's  Evidences  of  Christianity,  to  Professor  Porter; 
Geology  to  Professor  Dana;  Chemistry  to  Professor  Silliman,  Jr.,  and  Professor  Barker;  Anatomical  Lec- 
tures by  Professor  Sanford. 

Those  living  at  this  writing  are  Professors  Bailey  and  Northrop  and  Tutors  Dexter,  Gibbs,  Wheeler, 
Wilcox  and  Wright. 

FRESHMAN  YEAR 

On  Friday,  September  25,  1863,  the  Class  was  duly  initiated  into  the  Freshman  Societies,  Kappa  Sigma 
Epsilon,  Delta  Kappa,  and  Gamma  Nu,  by  '66.  By  far  the  larger  number  joined  the  first  two  societies, 
though   the   "open"    society   contained,    as    was    shown    during   our    College    course,    some    of    our    best    men. 

We  started  in  right  by  organizing  a  temperance  society,  in  which  the  following  pledge  was  drawn 
up   and   signed   by   some  eighty  members   of   the   Class: 

"  We,  members  of  the  Class  of  '67,  pledge  ourselves,  upon  our  solemn  oath,  not  to  drink  intoxicating 
liquors   throughout   our    College    Course.". 

On  January  28th,  1864,  the  first  death  occurred.  Melzar  Franklin  Bartlett  died  of  brain  fever.  Ap- 
propriate resolutions  were  drawn  up  by  a  Committee  of  the  Class,  a  copy  of  which  was  sent  to  the  family  of 
the  deceased. 

The  22d  of  February,  1864,  was  marked  by  a  general  uprising  on  the  part  of  the  Sophomores  and 
Freshmen;  it  was  a  bit  of  a  rebellion  against  the  Faculty,  taking  the  form  of  an  almost  unanimous  "cut" 
of  recitations.     Twenty  marks  apiece  to  the  Sophomores  and  eight  to  the  Freshmen  was  the  penalty. 

In  July.  1864,  occurred  two  boat  races  between  Harvard  and  Yale,  at  Worcester,  on  Lake  Quin- 
sigamond.     The  Sophomore  race  took  place  first,  in  which  Yale  was  defeated. 

The  University  race,  which  occurred  just  after,  resulted  in  a  well  earned  victory  for  Yale  in  19  min. 
I  sec. 

The  Class  voted  to  resurrect  the  old  institution  termed  "Pow  Wow,"  which  celebrates  the  transition 
from  the  Freshman  "Grub"  to  the  Sophomore  Locust. 

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U'NIVFRSIT^r 

But  all  efforts  were  at  once  quashed  by  "the  pow-ers  that  be." 

On  June  14,  1864,  Clarence  Darling  died  of  typhoid  fever;  his  was  the  second  death  the  Class  sus- 
tained during  its  College  course.  Appropriate  resolutions  were  drawn  up  by  a  Committee  of  the  Class,  a 
copy  of  which  was  sent  to  the  family  of  the  deceased. 

SOPHOMOTiE  YEAR. 

During  this  year  we  had  more  than  the  average  encounters  and  contests,  as  a  Class,  with  the  Fresh- 
men. We  endeavored,  in  every  case,  to  take  care  of  them,  but  in  one  or  two  of  the  "High  Street"  rushes 
we  found  the  Freshmen  abundantly  able  to  take  care  of  themselves.  Shortly  after  the  opening  of  the  term 
we  had  a  Class  picture  taken  on  the  steps  of  the  old   State  House. 

Our  Class  founded  a  new  Sophomore  society,  called  the  "Phi  Theta  Psi."  One  of  the  Society's  songs. 
"Amici  usque  ad  aras"  (composed  by  C.  H.  G.  ),  ranks  among  the  popular  songs  of  the  College  to-day. 
The  Presidential  contest  occurred  this  year,  and  the  political  arena  was  ablaze  with  mass  meetings  and  torch 
light  processions.  A  canvass  of  the  Class  resulted  in  one  hundred  and  seven  votes  for  Lincoln  and  twenty- 
six  for  McClellan. 

On  Thanksgiving  Day,  November  24th,  1864,  occurred  the  death  of  Professor  Benjamin  Silliman,  LL.D., 
in  the  86th  year  of  his  age.  For  nearly  sixty  years  he  was  the  acknowledged  head  of  all  our  philosophers 
in  Natural  Science  in  this  country.  His  funeral  occurred  on  the  28th,  at  the  Center  Church,  and  was  at- 
tended by  the  members  of  our  Class.     President  Woolsey  delivered  the  discourse. 

In  February,  1865,  Lieutenant  Thomas  Hedge  was  presented  with  a  sword  and  belt  by  his  former 
Classmates  of  '66.  He  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  io6th  N.  Y.  Volunteers,  and  was  subsequently  honored 
with  a  lieutenant's  commission.     Mr.  James  Brand,  of  '66,  made  the  presentation  speech. 

Our  Class  had  the  last  Sophomore  Biennial,  as  '65  had  the  last  Senior  Biennial.  In  the  Jubilee  that 
followed  this  examination  we  illustrated  our  Class  motto,  Kijp  eV  /ai'a  666? ,  by  taking  iwo  ways,  one  part 
of  the  Class  going  to  Savin  Rock,  the  other  to  Guilford  Point. 

On  the  3d  of  July  Lieutenant  Edwin  C.  Pratt,  who  left  us  early  in  the  Spring,  died.  This  was  the 
third  death  we  sustained  during  our  College  course. 

This  year  the  famous  Yale  six-oared  crew,  under  Stroke  Wilbur  Bacon  of  '65,  defeated  the  Harvard* 
ir  a  three-mile  race,  in  the  fastest  time  on  record — 17  min.  42   1-2  sec. 

JUNIOR  YEAR. 

In  the  early  Fall  the  Class  was  well  represented  in  the  boating  interests  of  the  College.  Two  of  the 
Class  sat  in  the  University  Boat. 

Our  Class  contributed  largely  to  the  enjoyment  of  the  Thanksgiving  Jubilee,  which  proved  to  be  the 
last  one  ever  given  by  the  students.  Elliot  furnished  an  operetta,  entitled  "The  Old,  Old  Story,"  Tom 
Hedge  an  ode,  and  the  Secretary  introduced  different  members  of  the  Faculty  to  the  audience.  The  last  farce 
on  the  programme,  however,  was  too  much  for  the  better  sentiment  of  the  College  community,  and  the 
Faculty  abolished  the  time-honored  institution. 

Only  once  since  then  has  it  been  revived.  In  1878  the  graduates  residing  in  New  York  City  and 
vicinity  held  a  Jubilee  at  the  Union  League  Club  Theatre,   now  known  .is  the  University   Club. 

On  the  25th  of  November,  1865,  the  first  number  of  the  Yale  "Courant"  was  issued  under  the  editor- 
«hip  of  C.  C.  Chatfield,  of  '66,  with  Buckingham.  Davenport,  L.  Hall  and  Smyth  as  assistants.  This  was  an 
enterprise  that  proved  in  many  ways  of  great  advantage  to  the  College.  It  supplied  a  long-felt  need  amons? 
the  students,  containing  all  the  College  news  from  week  to  week,  and  by  its  spicy  articles  and  just  criticisms 
it  rounded  off  many  a  sharp  corner  in  College  politics  and  customs. 

At  the  commencement  of  the  year,  on  January  20th,  1866,  the  Class  elected  Bruce,  DuBois,  Dunning, 
Hartshorn  and  Woodward  editors  of  the  "Yale  Lit."  Under  their  management  the  magazine  thrived  and 
the  articles  contributed  were  of  more  than   usual  merit  and  excellence. 


During  the  same  month  the  Class  voted  for  their  Cochlaureati  or  Spoonmen,  selecting  the  men  from 
the  three  Junior  Societies,  Psi  Upsilon,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  Alpha  Delta  Phi.  Three  from  each  of 
these  societies  were  chosen,  as  follows:  B.  Allen,  Goodman  and  Stoddard  from  Psi  Upsilon;  Adee,  Bissell 
and  Reynolds  from  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon;  J.  M.  Allen,  Hulst  and  G.  P.  Sheldon  from  Alpha  Delta  Phi. 

J.  M.  Allen  was  selected  to  receive  the  Wooden  Spoon.  The  Spoon  Exhibition  fully  endorsed  the 
good  judgment  of  the  Class  in  this  selection. 

During  the  latter  part  of  the  month  of  May,  Flanders,  Bishop,  DeForest  and  Hulst  were  chosen  As- 
sistant editors  of  the  "Yale  Courant"  for  the  coming  year. 

Xone  can  forget  the  visit  from  Daniel  Pratt,  the  "Great  American  Traveler,"  as  he  used  to  style  him- 
self, and  his  oratorical  speeches  that  he  was  wont  to  make  on  the  Old  State  House  steps.  Prof.  Bailey 
told  us  that  we  would  do  well  to  imitate  him.  No  matter  on  what  subject  "Daniel"  would  deliver  himself — 
whether  on  the  "Beacon  of  Light  or  Mental  Mirror,"  or  on  the  "Cartesion  Corpuscularian  and  Peripatetic 
Philosophies"' — he  always  had  the  same  way  of  ending  up:  "Let  posterity  inscribe  it  in  monumental  brass, 
that  no  such  orator  has  spoken  since  the  days  of  Balaam's  Ass." 

SENIOR   YEAR. 

The  Class  had  only  just  assembled  at  the  College  to  commence  the  studies  of  the  last  year  when  the 
news  reached  us  of  the  death  of  Harpin  Meigs  Lum,  who  was  accidentally  drowned  August  30th,  1866,  at 
Prairie  du  Chien,  Wisconsin.  This  was  the  fourth  death  the  Class  was  called  upon  to  bear  during  its  College 
course  Appropriate  resolutions  were  drawn  up  by  a  Class  Committee,  a  copy  of  which  was  forwarded  to 
tlie  family  of  the  deceased. 

During  the  Fall  of  the  year  the  Class  was  well  represented  in  the  boating  interests  of  the  College. 
"Lam"  Palmer,  as  stroke  of  the  "Glyuna,"  made  the  Harbor  races  in  the  Spring  and  Fall  of  '66  in  the  fast- 
est   time   on    record. 

Death  seemed  to  follow  us,  for  hardly  had  we  passed  the  Fall  before  word  was  brought  to  us  of  the 
death  of  Samuel  Dyer  Allen,  who  left  us  the  preceding  June.  He  died  December  14th,  1866,  of  typhoid 
fever.  This  made  the  fifth  and  last  death  we  were  called  upon  to  sustain  as  a  Class  during  the  course.  Ap- 
propriate resolutions  were  drawn  up  by  a  Class  Committee,  a  copy  of  which  was  sent  to  the  family  of  the 
deceased. 

During  the  second  term.  Senior  Year,  after  a  close  vote,  John  W.  Showalter  was  chosen  Class  Orator 
and  William   H.   Bishop   Class   Poet. 

In  May  these  subjects  for  the  Townsend  Compositions  were  given  out  to  the  Class: 

I.  Modern   English   Poetry,   compared  with  the  Poetry  of  the  Seventeenth   Century. 

II.  The  power  of  ideas  contrasted  with  the   power  of  individual   men. 

III.  The  effects  of  the  Puritan  Rebellion  on  the  English  Constitution. 

IV.  The  future  of  Russia. 

As  many  as  twenty-five  or  thirty  members  of  the  Class  competed.  The  successful  competitors  were 
Burrell,  Dunning,  Hedge,  H.   Sheldon,  Vincent  and  Woodward. 

On  the  24th  of  June  the  speaking  for  the  DeForest  Gold  Medal  occurred.  Burrell  and  Dunning  spoke 
on  subject  I,  the  others  on  II.     At  the  conclusion  of  the  speaking  the  medal  was  awarded  to  Burrell. 

Class  day  was  June  26th,  1867.  At  10  A.  M.  in  the  College  Chapel  the  Class  assembled  and  listened 
to  a  poem  by  Bishop,  followed  by  an  oration,  entitled  "The  Educated  Man  as  a  Citizen,"  delivered  by 
Showalter.     At  its  conclusion  a  parting  ode,  composed  by  C.  L.  Allen,  was  sung. 

At  2.30  P.  M.,  on  the  Campus,  in  front  of  Old  South  Middle  College,  the  Class  formed  a  circle  and  lis- 
tened to  the  historians  of  the  several  divisions  as  they  traced  the  individual  peculiarities  of  each  member. 
The  Historians  were  Chittenden,  Elliot,  Kitchel  and  Spencer.  Without  disparagement  to  any  of  the  others, 
Chittenden  produced  the  best  history  that  has  ever  been  delivered  on  an  occasion  of  this  kind.  So  far  as 
the  Secretary  is  aware,  only  one  member  of  the  Class  has  fulfilled  the  predictions  made  of  him  at  that  time, 
for  on  each  reunion  of  the  Class  since  graduation  he  has  not  failed  to  voice  the  sentiments  and  teachings 
of  the  Faculty. 


The  sky  was  overcast,  the  air  moist,  but  it  was  in  keeping  with  the  feelings  of  the  Class  on  that  day 
of  farewell,  when  every  eye  was  tearful.  After  planting  the  Class  Ivy  and  serenading  the  different  mem- 
bers of  the  Faculty,  '67  closed  its  College  career. 

SUMMARY. 

Compared  with  other  classes,  '67  in  scholarship  had  the  "Golden  Mean."  The  ability  of  the  Class  was 
well  distributed.  The  interest  in  the  prize  debates  was  kept  up  better  than  in  either  the  Class  preceding  or 
the  Class  following  ours.  About  30  men  competed  for  the  "Townsends,"  an  unprecedented  number.  Our 
Valedictorian  took  the  highest  stand  ever  taken  at  Yale  up  to  the  time  we  graduated.. 

The  Class'  age  (aggregate)  was  2,246  years,  11  months  and  4  days;  average  age  at  Presentation  day, 
22  years,  2  months,  28.6  days.  The  youngest  man  (H.  G.  Landis)  was  19  years,  22  days;  the  oldest  man 
(G.  R.  Carrington)  was  29  years,  8  months,  i  day.  The  Class  birthday  is  the  27th  of  March,  1845.  The 
total  height  of  '67  was  569  feet,  3  inches;  average  height,  5  feet,  7.64  inches. 

The  shortest  man  was  T.  Greenwood,  5  feet,  2  inches;  the  tallest  men  were  E.  W.  Clarke,  G.  P.  Shel- 
don, J.  \y.  Showalter  and  H.  Weston,  each  of  whom  measured  6  feet  i   inch. 

The  total  weight  of  the  Class  was  14,484  lbs.;  average,  143.4  lbs.  The  heaviest  man  (G.  P.  Sheldon), 
187  lbs.;  the  lightest   (E.   Robinson),    115  lbs. 

At  time  of  graduation  only  one  wore  spectacles,  while  eight  used  glasses. 

Of  the  men  whose  fathers  were  College  graduates,  Spencer  and  VVetmore's  fathers  and  the  father 
of  Wetmore's  wife  were  classmates  at  Union  College  in  the  Class  of  '22.  The  fathers  of  Beecher  and 
Brainerd  were  classmates  at  Yale  in  the  Class  of  '22.  Johnston  and  Seymour's  fathers  were  classmates  at 
Vale  in    1835,   while   Tallman's   father   was   in   the   Class   of    1837. 

While  a  number  of  the  Class  had  fathers  or  brothers  who  had  graduated  from  Yale  or  been  connected 
with  other  colleges,  five  of  the  Class  were  especialy  prominent  in  this  respect: 

The  Secretary  heads  the  list  with  a  grandfather,  father,  two  uncles,  three  brothers,  six  nephews  and 
one  cousin. 

Adee  and  Kitchel  come  next,  the  former  having  four  brothers  and  a  son,  while  the  latter  has  three 
brothers  and  two  nephews.  Taft  had  a  father  and  four  brothers,  while  Coe  had  a  father,  uncle  and  two 
cousins. 

The  Class  graduated  on  July  18,  1867,  with  64  appointments,  embracing  4  Philosophical,  7  High  Ora- 
tions, 11  Orations,   12  Dissertations,   10  Disputes  and  20  Colloquies. 

With  the  exception  of  the  Valedictorian,  no  remarkable  individual  high  stand  was  taken,  but  the 
average  scholarship  of  the  Class,  including  the  appointment  men  and  those  who  failed  to  receive  appoint- 
ments, was  better  than  that  of  many  of  the  Classes  that  had  preceded  ours.  While  we  had  few  high-honor 
men,  we  also  had  few  low-stand  men. 

ROIX  OF  HONOR. 

E.   W.   Clarke,  Private  Sixth  Oliio   Battery. 

Ira  S.   Dodd,  Sergeant  Twenty-sixth  New  Jersey  Infantry. 

Geo.   Eastburn,   Corporal   Eleventh   Pennsylvania  Militia. 

Brown  H.  Emerson,  Private  Delaware  Infantry  (100  days). 

T.  Greenwood,  Clerk  in  Commissary  Department. 

T.  Hedge,  Second  Lieutenant  in   io6th  New  York  Infantry. 

Edwin   C.   Pratt,    Second   Lieutenant   Eighth   U.    S.    Colored   Infantry. 

Benjamin   Smith,   Private  Forty-fifth   Pennsylvania  Infantry. 

Franklin  M.   Sprague,  Captain   Eleventh   Connecticut   Infantry. 

Ebenezer  F.  Stoddard,  Second  Corporal  Fifth  Ohio  Infantry. 

C.    S.   Walker,   Private    137th   Ohio   Infantry. 


CLASS  RE-UNIONS. 


TRIENNIAL. 

In  the  Spring  of  1870  circulars  of  invitation  to  the  reunion  were  sent  to  all  members  of  the  Class, 
graduate  and  non-graduate. 

In  response  to  this  invitation,  the  members  began  to  assemble  in  New  Haven  as  early  as  the  13th  of 
July,  and  from  that  day  to  the  20th,  the  date  of  the  reunion,  they  continued  to  arrive  in  large  numbers  until, 
on  the  evening  of  July  20th,  1870,  just  sixty-seven  members,  graduate  and  non-graduate,  had  assembled  in 
the  city,  as   follows: 

Graduates. — Adams,  Adee,  T.  Allyn,  Beecher,  Bliss,  Bishop,  Bissell,  Brainerd,  Brother,  A.  B.  Brown,  L. 
T.  Brown,  Cannon,  J.  H.  Chapman,  Chittenden,  A.  S.  Clark,  Coe,  Collins,  Comstock,  Davenport,  Day,  De- 
Forest,  Dexter,  Dunning,  Eddy,  Elliot,  Goodman,  Greenwood,  Hart,  Hartshorn,  Hedge,  Hulst,  Jennings, 
Johnston,  Keeler,  Lamb,  Landis,  Merriam,  Morgan,  Morse,  Xolen,  Payne,  Peck,  Porter,  Robinson,  G.  P. 
Sheldon,  H.  C.  Sheldon,  B.  Smith,  Spencer,  Stedman,  Stoddard,  Swan,  Taft,  Tallman,  C.  S.  Walker,  H.  W. 
Walker,  Warren,  Wild,  Wilson — 59. 

Xon-Graduates. — Bigler,  Bishop,  Budington,  Cleveland,  Durfee,  Fowler,  Spraguc,  Van  Schoon- 
hoven — 8.     Total — 67. 

THE  BUSINESS  MEETING. 

At  12  M.  of  the  20th  a  business  meeting  was  held  in  the  President's  Lecture-room.  Payne  was 
chosen  chairman.  Eliot,  acting  as  secretary,  nominated  Spencer  to  preside  at  the  supper.  This  was  ratified 
by  the  Class.  Morse  was  appointed  Class  Secretary.  It  was  voted  that  the  Class  meet  in  1873  to  celebrate 
its  Sexennial.     An  adjournment  was  then  taken  until  8.30  P.  M. 

SUPPER. 
At  that  hour  the  Class  again  met  at  the  same  place,  and,  after  singing  a  few  songs,  marched  to  the 
New  Haven  House,   where  an  excellent  and  bountiful  supper  had  been  provided. 

THE  CUP  CEREMONIES. 

At  1 1  P.  M.,  supper  having  been  finished,  the  doors  were  thrown  open  and  the  room  was  immediately 
filled  with  a  brilliant  audience  of  ladies  and  gentlemen  to  witness  the  presentation  of  the  Silver  Cup. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  Warren,  with  the  Class  Boy,  then  entered  the  room,  accompanied  by  three  lady 
friends  of  the  family.  Mr.  Spencer,  the  President,  made  an  address  of  welcome;  the  Class  then  sang  the 
Cup  Song,  composed  by  P.  B.  Porter,  after  which  the  President  introduced  Hedge,  who  made  the  Presenta- 
tion  Speech.      (This  was  by   far  the  finest  speech  ever  delivered  at  a   Cup   Celebration.) 

Mr.  Warren  replied,  thanking  the  Class  on  behalf  of  himself  and  Mrs.  Warren  and  their  son  Walter, 
and  assuring  them  that  both  he  and  Mrs.  Warren  would  see  to  it  that  the  boy  should  learn  to  love  and  re- 
vere '67,  and  hold  himself  responsible  to  us  just  as  he  would  be  to  his  parents. 

The  president  then  pronounced  the  "benediction,"  and  the  audience  withdrew.  The  Class,  resolving 
itself  into  the  Committee  of  the  Whole,  proceeded  to  respond  to  the 

TOASTS  OF  THE  EVENING. 

I.  "Alma  Mater,"  Taft;  II.  "The  Class  of  '67,"  Payne;  III.  "Theology,"  Dexter;  IV.  "Law,"  Lamb; 
V.  "Medicine,"  Porter;  VI.  "Teachers,"  Jennings;  VII.  "The  Married  Men,"  Merriam;  VIII.  "The 
Bachelors,"  H.  W.  Walker;  IX.  "The  Business  Men,"  Brother;  X.  "The  Absentees,"  Goodman;  XL  "The 
Class   Dead,"    Dunning;    XII.   "The   Non-graduates,"    Sprague. 

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Then  followed  the  "irregular"  toasts,  in  which  the  Secretary  introduced  the  Faculty,  followed  by 
short  addresses  and  remarks  by  most  of  the  members  present.  Nine  rousing  cheers  and  a  vote  of  thanks 
were  given  to  Elliott  for  his  efforts  in  regard  to  the  Triennial,  and  at  4  A.  M.  the  meeting  adjourned.  The 
Class  then  marched  to  the  Library,  and,  gathering  round  the  Ivy,  sang  the  old  Ivy  Song  to  the  tune  "Oft 
in  the  Stilly  Night,"  by  Elliot.     After  nine  rousing  cheers  for  '67,  the  Class  dispersed. 


SEXENNIAL. 

The  Sexennial  meeting  of  the  Class  was  held  in  the  City  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  June  25,  1873,  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  vote  of  the  Class  at  their  Triennial. 

BUSINESS   MEETING. 
At  noon  on   the  25th,   a  business  meeting  was   held  in  the   Athenaeum.      Reynolds   was   called   to   the 
Chair.     The  Secretary  not  being  present,   Elliot  made  a  few  general  remarks  in  regard  to  the  evening's  ex- 
ercises and  nominated  Lamb  for  President  of  the  evening.     The  Class  ratified  this  and  then  adjourned. 

SUPPER. 

The  Class  Supper  was  held  at  Redcliffe's,  corner  of  Chapel  &  Temple  streets.  The  following  members 
were  present: 

Graduates. — Adee,  C.  L.  Allen,  Betts,  Cannon,  Davenport,  Drake,  Elliot,  Hart,  Ingham,  Jennings, 
Lamb,  Morgan,  Morse,  Nolen,  Partridge,  Payne,  Porter,  Reynolds,  Skeels,  Tallman,  H.  W.  Walker,  Warren, 
Wetmore,  Wild — 24. 

Non-Graduates. — Bacon,   Benedict,   Bliss,   Hobson,   Huntington,   Spellman — 6;   making  in  all   30. 

After  an  interchange  of  College  greetings,  the  Class  sat  down  to  a  well-spread  table.  Grace  was  in- 
roked  by  Rev.  J.   W.   Partridge. 

The  Class  Boy,  Walter  Chester  Warren,  recited  a  piece  of  poetry  prepared  for  him,  after  which  the 
President  called  the  meeting  to  order  and  made  a  few  opening  remarks,  which  were  followed  by  short  ad- 
dresses from  the  different  members  present. 

The  meeting  was  entirely  informal,  with  the  exception  of  Elliot's  speech.  Jokes  and  College  remi- 
niscences, interspersed  with  songs,  enlivened  the  meeting.  The  Class  voted  to  meet  again  in  New  Haven  in 
1877  to  celebrate  its  Decennial.  At  3.30  A.  M.  the  Class  adjourned  to  the  Ivy,  where,  after  singing  a  song 
and  embracing  "Hen"  Walker,  the  members  dispersed. 


DECENNIAL. 

The  Decennial  meeting  of  the  Class  of  '67  was  held  in  the  City  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  June  27,  1877, 
in   accordance   with   the   vote   of   the   Class   at   their   Sexennial. 

BUSINESS   MEETING. 

The  Class  met  at  noon  in  the  President's  Lecture-room.  There  were  about  25  or  30  members  present. 
The  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  the  Secretary,  who  nominated  Elliot  as  Chairman  of  the  meeting,  which 
was  carried.  The  Secretary  moved  that  G.  P.  Sheldon  be  appointed  to  preside  at  the  Class  Supper  in  the 
evening.  This  motion  was  seconded  and  carried.  A  tax  of  $10  was  then  levied  to  defray  the  expenses  of 
the  supper  and  the  publication  of  the  Class  Record. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Cannon,  it  was  voted  to  hold  the  next  meetine  of  the  Class  during  Commencement 
week  in  the  year  1882. 

The  Secretary  informed  the  Class  that  the  supper  would  be  held  at  the  Tremont  House  at  9  o'clock,  and 
urged  a  prompt  attendance.     After  singing  "Bingo"  the  meeting  adjourned. 

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By  a  vote  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Faculty,  Rev.  Charles  T.  Collins  represented  the  Class 
at  the  meeting  of  the  Alumni  on   the  morning  of  Wednesday,   the   27th. 

THE  SUPPER. 

Promptly  at  9  o'clock  the  Class  assembled  at  the  Tremont  House  and,  headed  by  the  President  and 
Secretary,  marched  into  the  dining-room  and  took  seats  around  the  well-spread  table.  The  following  mem- 
bers   were    present : 

Graduates.— Adee,  C.  L.  Allen,  Allison,  Baldwin,  Beecher,  Betts,  Bishop,  Brainerd.  Bruce,  Cannon, 
Carrington,  Cartwright,  Coe,  Collins,  Comstock,  Davenport,  Dexter,  DuBois,  Dunning,  Eddy,  Elliot,  Gamble', 
Harding,  Harper,  Hartshorn,  Ingham,  Lamb,  INIann,  Merriam,  Morse,  Porter,  G.  P.  Sheldon,  Stedman,  J.  A. 
Swan,  Tallman,  Turrell,  Vincent,  Wetmore  and  Wild — 39. 

Xon-Graduates. — Bacon,   Spellman  and  Sprague — 3.     Total — 42. 

Grace  was  said  by  Rev.   Boyd  \'incent,  after  which  the  Class  paid  attention  to  the  supper. 

The  toasts  were  almost  entirely  informal,  old  reminiscences  were  recalled,  and  a  very  enjoyable  even- 
ing  was   passed. 

Among  the  items  of  interest  in  the  Secretary's  report  was  a  letter  from  Payne,  written  from  Paris, 
which  was  listened  to  with  the  deepest  attention.  At  its  conclusion  the  following  cable  dispatch  was  an- 
nouced : 

"Vale  College,  Xew  Haven. 
To  Morse: 
"I  join  in  drinking  Vale  and  '67;  we  appreciate  better  to-day  the  worth  of  both:  "Payne." 

Elliot  delivered  an  obituary  tribute  to  the  late  Henry  Weyman  \\'alker,  and  Merriam  spoke  in  regard 
to  Alexander  Johnston.  Bishop  delivered  a  poem.  A  vote  of  thanks  was  extended  to  Elliot  and  the  Secre- 
tary for  the  manner  in  which  they  had  performed  their  duties  and  for  the  services  they  had  rendered  the 
Class.  Short  addresses  were  made  by  the  different  members  present.  The  Secretary  introduced  the  Faculty, 
and,  after  the  singing  of  College  songs,  the  meeting  broke  up  at  4.30  A.  M.  The  Class  formed  and 
marched  through  the  Green  to  the  Lyceum  and  around  the  Library  Building,  and  halted  in  front  of  the  Ivy, 
sang  a  song  composed  by  Porter,  entitled  "The  Dear  Old  Class,"  to  the  tune  "Those  Evening  Bells."  Nine 
rousing  cheers  for  '67  and  the  members  separated. 


QUINDECENNIAL. 


Our  Quindecennial  meeting  was  held  at  Savin  Rock,  at  "Hills'  Homestead,"  on  Tuesday  evening, 
June  27,  1882.  The  meeting  was  wholly  informal,  some  twenty-five  members  being  present.  Adee  presided. 
Hartshorn  spoke  for  the  Clergy,  Mann  for  the  Doctors,  Spellman  for  the  Law,  Bruce  on  Literature,  Morgan 
on  Business,  Dexter  on  Yale,  Davenport  for  the  Married  Men,  and  J.  A.  Swan  for  the  Bachelors. 

Some  pleasant  interchanges  were  had  with  '76,  who  were  celebrating  their  Sexennial  in  an   adjoining 


room. 


The  Class  voted  to  meet  again  in   1887,  and  the  meeting  broke  up  at   12  M. 


VIGINTENNIAL. 

In   pursuance  with  the  vote  of  the   Class  at   their   Quindecennial,   in    1882,   the   Vigintennial   meeting 
was  held  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  June  28,   1887. 

BUSINESS   MEETI.XG. 
At  noon  on  the  28th  the  Class  met  in  Divinity  Hall,  some  35  members  being  present. 
The  Secretary  called  the  meeting  to  order  and  nominated   Brooks  as  Chairman: 

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The  Secretary  announced  that  the  Committee  had  selected  Hedge  to  preside  at  our  Class  Supper  in  the 
e'vcning,  and  moved  that  the  apjiointment  be  ratified  by   the  Class.      Seconded  and  carried. 

Adee  moved  that  a  committee  of  five  be  appointed  by  the  Chair  to  draw  up  resolutions  of  sympathy 
in  regard  to  those  of  our  classmates  who  had  recently  died,  and  that  a  copy  of  the  same  be  sent  to  the 
relatives  of  the  deceased.  Adee,  Baldwin,  Elliot,  Lamb  and  Vincent  were  appointed  to  serve  as  such  com- 
mittee; after  some  discussion  in  regard  to  the  resolutions,  it  was  moved  and  carried  that  the  Committee 
report  through  the  Class  minutes  and  transmit  a  copy  of  the  same  to  the  families  of  the  deceased  members. 

The  Secretary  informed  the  Class  that  the  supper  would  be  served  by  Delmonico  in  "Brothers"  Hall, 
and  urged  the  Class  to  be  promptly  on  hand  at  7  P.  M. 

After  an  interchange  of  Class  greetings,  the  members  adjourned  to  Battell  Chapel,  and  listened  to 
an  oration  by  Burrell  on  "The  Thinker"  and  a  poem  by  Bruce,  subject,  "A  Nooning;  Yale,   1887." 

During  the  afternoon  most  of  the  Class  attended  the  Yale-Harvard  ball  game,  some  remained 
on  the  Campus,  and  a  dozen  or  more,  who  had  brought  their  wives  and  children  with  them,  introduced 
them  to  the  Class,  and  this  proved  one  of  the  pleasantest  features  of  the  occasion. 

SUPPER. 
Promptly  at   7  o'clock  the  Class  gathered   under  the  tent  in   front  of  Alumni   Hall   and   ascended  the 
familiar  steps  leading  to   "Brothers,"   where  the  banquet   had  been   prepared.     The  tables  were   arranged   in 
the   form   of  three   sides  of   a  hollow   square   and   were   beautifully   decorated.     Fifty-eight   were   present,   as 
follows : 

Graduates:  Adee,  Baldwin,  Beard,  Beechcr,  Bissell,  Bishop,  Brainerd,  Brooks,  Bruce,  Burrell,  Car- 
rington.  Chapman,  Chittenden,  Clark,  Coe,  Comstock,  Davenport,  Dexter,  Dodd,  DuBois,  Elliot,  Gamble, 
Goodman,  Greenwood,  Harper,  Hartshorn,  Hedge,  Ingham,  Lamb,  Mann,  Merriam,  Morgan,  Morse,  Nolen, 
Peck,  Porter,  G.  Sheldon,  H.  Sheldon,  Skeels,  Stedman,  Swam,  Tallman,  Turrell,  Vincent,  Weston,  VVetmore, 
Wild,  Wilson,  Wright — 49. 

Non-Graduates:  Bacon,  Benedict,  Bigler,  T.  H.  Edwards,  Hazard,  Marks,  McKinney,  Spellman, 
Sprague. — 9.     Total,  58. 

At  the  close  of  the  repast  the  President,  Thomas  Hedge,  made  one  of  his  characteristic  speeches,  in 
which  the  glory  of  the  old  College  Fence  was  enlarged  upon.  Speaking  on  this  subject,  he  said:  "And 
don't  you  agree  with  me,  boys,  that  we  learned  how  to  be  men,  how  to  be  truthful,  how  to  be  square,  how 
to  be  honorable,  how  to  give  value  received,  right  on  that  fence?  I  think  the  best  education  we  got  in 
College  was  what  we  got  from  one  another.  That  is  what  I  value  about  Yale  College,  and  that  is  what  I 
came  here  to  suggest,  that  the  big  thing  about  Yale  College  is  the  life  that  used  to  be  on  the  'fence— the 
influence  that  you  and  I  used  to  have  on  one  another." 

The  only  regular  toast  of  the  evening  was  delivered  by  Burrell,  "The  Class  of  '67."  Speeches  were 
made  by  nearly  all  those  present,  and  the  meeting  was  unanimously  conceded  to  have  been  one  of  the  best 
'67  ever  had. 

One  of  the  pleasant  features  of  the  meeting  was  the  large  attendance — the  largest  '67  ever  held, 
except  the  Triennial.     We  had  lost   17  by  death  and  yet  out  of  a  possible  87   we  had   58  present. 

The  dinner  was  the  best  we  ever  had,  and  many  members  of  the  Class  so  reported  to  the  Secretary. 
For  this  the  Committee  was  worthy  of  all  praise— particularly  Adee,  for  his  personal  efforts  in  attending 
to  this  part  of  the  programme. 

It  is  but  just  to  say  right  here  that  great  credit  was  due  to  Wild  for  his  untiring  and  prompt 
assistance.  He  was  delegated  to  provide  accommodations  in  New  Haven  for  all  of  the  Class  who  desired 
them.  This  duty  he  fulfilled  with  rare  good  judgment  and  ability.  Other  members  who  rendered  excellent 
service  in  communicating  with  the  Secretary  about  absent  members  were  Baldwin,  Peck  and  Vincent. 

The  Secretary  moved  that  the  Class  meet  in   1892,  which  motion  was  seconded  and  carried. 


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REPORT 

OF  THE 
QUARTER  CENTURY  MEETING. 


BUSINESS   MEETING. 

At  noon,  on  the  28th  of  June,  1892,  the  following  members  of  the  Class  as- 
sembled in  Old  Chapel ;  Baldwin,  Bissell,  Burrell,  Butterfield,  A.  S.  Clark,  Corn- 
stock,  Dexter,  Dunning,  Davenport,  Carrington,  Chittenden,  Lamb,  Merriam, 
Morse,  Nolen,  Perkins,  Small,  Spellman,  Stedman,  Turrell,  Wright,  and  others. 

The  Secretary  called  the  Class  to  order,  and  nominated  Mr.  Davenport  for 
Chairman  of  the  meeting.     This  motion  was  seconded  and  carried. 

The  Secretary  then  stated  that  the  Class  Committee  had  seen  fit  to  select  Mr. 
Burrell  to  preside  at  the  dinner  in  the  evening,  and  moved  that  the  Class  ratify  this 
appointment.  This  was  unanimously  carried.  Mr.  Dexter  then  brought  to  the  at- 
tention of  those  present  the  matter  of  the  Alumni  University  Fund,  after  stating 
that  a  circular  letter  would  be  sent  to  each  member  of  the  Class. 

Mr.  Comstock  moved  that  Mr.  Dexter  be  requested  to  present  the  matter  of 
subscriptions  to  this  Fund ;  at  the  dinner  in  the  evening,  this  was  so  ordered. 

Mr.  Lamb  then  moved  that  Mr.  Dunning  represent  the  Class  at  the  Alumni 
dinner  to-morrow  afternoon.  This  motion  was  seconded  by  the  Secretary,  and 
carried. 

The  Secretary  stated  that  the  dinner  would  be  held  in  Brothers'  Hall,  at  7 
P.  M.,  and  asked  that  the  Class  be  promptly  on  hand  at  that  hour.  The  meeting 
then  adjourned.  WM.   H.   MORSE, 

Secretary. 

During  the  afternoon  some  of  the  Class  attended  the  Yale-Harvard  ball  game. 
Some  strolled  around  New  Haven  exchanging  experiences  with  one  another,  and 
some  took  it  quietly  at  the  New  Haven  House. 

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THE  DINNER. 

Promptly  at  7  P.  M.,  the  Class  met  at  Alumni  Hall,  and,  headed  by  D.  J. 
Burrell,  the  president-elect  of  the  evening,  and  the  Secretary  led  the  way  to  the 
dining-room  in  Old  Brothers,  in  Alumni  Hall.  Here  the  Class  sat  down  as 
follows : 


Butterfield. 

Dodd. 

Hartshorn. 

Eastburn. 

Bacon. 

Ingham. 


G.  P.  Shelden. 
Dexter. 

Carrington. 

C.    S.   Walker. 

Beecher. 

Weston. 

Brainerd. 

Spellman. 

Morgan. 

Davenport. 


Comstock. 

A.  S.  Clark 

Nelson. 

Wild. 

Greenwood. 

Wright. 

Harper. 

B.   Smith. 

Turrell. 

Bigler. 

Nolen. 

McKinney. 

Tallman. 

Merriam. 

Perkins. 

Lamb. 

N.  A.  Chapman. 

Dunning. 

Hedge. 

Bissell. 

H 


m 


Just  before  the  dinner  was  over,  'yy,  who  were  celebrating  their  fifteenth  re- 
union in  Linonia  Hall,  paid  a  visit  to  '67,  and  through  their  representative,  Mr. 
Chapin.  made  a  short  speech,  presenting  the  Class  with  two  bottles  of  Mumm. 

Dr.  Burrell  replied  for  '67,  followed  by  short  speeches  from  Geo.  Adee  and 
Tom  Hedge.  Later  '67  returned  the  visit  of  'yy,  and  Davenport  presented  them 
with  two  bottles  of  Apollinaris  and  the  good  wishes  of  '67,  which  were  accepted 
bv  Mr.  Barnum. 


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ADDRESS  BY  THOMAS  HEDGE,  '67,  at  the  Alumni  Meeting  of  Yale 
University,  June  28,  J  892. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Alumni: 

I  suppose,  Mr.  Chairman,  that  it  was  in  the  mind  of  the  Committee,  in  selecting  me  to 
represent  the  Class  of  '67,  that,  being  situated  as  I  am  geographically,  farthest  away  from 
this  College,  and  during  our  College  course  also  figuratively,  most  of  the  time,  on  the  edge  of  its 
jurisdiction,  that  if  I  should  respond  and  be  here,  the  rest  of  the  class  might  be  considered  as 
present  or  accounted  for.  I  represent  that  part  of  the  Class,  Air.  Chairman,  which  occupied 
a  sort  of  conservative  position — far  enough  from  the  high  oration  and  prize  men  to  gaze  upon 
them  without  smoked  glasses,  and  near  enough  to  those  reposeful  souls,  those  philosophical 
souls,  below  first  or  second  dispute,  who  were  always  in  dread  of  that  dislocation  and  deposi- 
tion which  was  imminent.  Being  somewhat  experienced  in  the  presentation  of  excuse  papers, 
fervent  and  sometimes  effectual,  possibly  I  may  be  able  to  say  something  that  will  contain  a 
measure  of  truth  concerning  this  Class  of  '67. 

It  is  true,  gentlemen  of  the  Alumni,  that  we  have  a  feeling  of  perhaps  a  little  less  of 
charity  than  that  entertained  by  our  distinguished  friend  of  the  Class  of  '52,  as  we  come  back 
to  New  Haven — a  little  grain  of  jealousy  for  those  who  are  now  in  possession.  We  feel  that 
we  are  the  only  true  supplanters,  the  original  Jacobs,  and  that  this  is  our  .place.  We  have 
the  same  sort  of  feeling  that  might  have  actuated  the  other  son,  who  was  not  the  prodigal, 
when  he  found  the  best  appropriated  by  those  not  less  deserving,  but  younger.  We  regret 
to  miss  that  fence — (applause) — not  merely  on  account  of  its  architectural  beauties,  but  it 
represented  to  us  the  line  of  demarcation  between  the  just  and  the  unjust,  the  elect  and  those 
not  yet  saved.  By  it  we  calculated  the  lines  of  longitude  and  the  great  circles  of  the  whole 
solar  system.  That  was  more  than  a  Rubicon  to  the  man  who  had  not  yet  entered.  It 
seemed  as  those  heights  that  veiled  the  Pacific  might  have  seemed  to  Balboa,  or  as  that  coun- 
try which  he  could  not  enter  might  have  seemed  to  Moses ;  although  we  were  not  Moses,  and 
the  New  Haven  House  was  not  Pisgah.  We  miss  also  the  State  House,  and  the  Legislature 
that  used  to  meet  every  April  at  the  New  Haven  House  and  vote  unanimously  for  shad.  I 
say  we  miss  those  gentlemen,  but  I  was  pleased  to  find  that  their  deliberative  functions  were 
now  assumed  by  the  colored  waiters.  I  miss  particularly  that  clock  that  used  to  be.  on  the 
old  Chapel.  I  remember  how  Pitt  Holmes  and  I,  one  evening — a  foggy  evening — our 
watches  being  in  the  custody  of  Shoninger — for  in  those  days  not  only  salvation  was  of  the 
Jews,  but  they  provided  for  our  more  conscious  and  immediate  wants.  Pitt  lighted  a  match 
to  see  what  time  it  was  up  there,  sixty  feet  above.  It  has  seemed  to  me,  Mr.  Chairman,  since, 
that  we  two  boys  were  a  type  of  old  heretics  and  heresy  hunters,  who  tried  to  make  out  and 
measure  the  eternities  with  a  brimstone  light.    We  were  like  them.    We  were  out  too  late. 


f  or  THK  ^ 

.    UNIVERSITY 


We  miss  also  Professor  Loomis'  anamometer,  that  used  to  be  above  these  towers.  The 
unsophisticated  thought  it  was  meant  to  measure  the  direction  of  the  north  and  east  and 
various  other  winds  that  passed  New  Haven.  We  know  it  was  intended  to  measure  the  force 
and  virtue  of  the  prize  debates. 

But,  Mr.  President,  here  we  find  very  little  change.  In  fact,  I  have  somewhat  the  same 
feeling  that  I  had  the  other  two  times  that  I  entered  Alumni  Hall — somewhat  remote  and  cut 
off  from  my  base  of  supplies.  I  had  some  interest  how  in  the  world  I  was  ever  going  to  get 
out.     I  feel  so  now. 

But.  more  than  all,  we  miss  the  old  familiar  faces — not  only  those  of  the  hundred  and 
one  of  our  number  who  graduated  with  high  hopes  twenty-five  years  ago ;  but  the  urbane, 
manly  and  great-hearted  Thatcher,  the  gifted,  many-sided  genius,  Hadley;  that  President 
who  in  his  place  here  served  his  God  and  country  all  his  life  more  excellently  and  faithfully 
than  his  Cardinal  namesake  ever  served  his  king — the  head  master  of  clear  thought  and  plain 
expression — our  Woolsey — (applause) — and  the  homely  and  benignant  presence  of  the  old 
Governor  of  the  second  division  (Porter),  whose  abounding  grace  far  exceeded  our  abundant 
shortcomings  and  misdemeanors ;  whose  daily  life  was  illustration  and  proof  of  the  pleasantness 
of  wisdom's  way  and  that  her  paths  are  peace. 

I  say,  Mr.  President,  though  we  came  here  with  .something  of  a  feeling  of  jealousy,  there 
is  over  it  all  and  conquering  it  all  a  feeling  of  brotherhood  and  of  filial  affection.  As  has 
been  said  by  every  one  so  modestly,  our  Class  of  '67  was  not  a  remarkable  class,  except  in  the 
smallness  of  its  numbers.  We  were  only  one  hundred  and  four.  We  have  had  two  poets. 
They  still  live,  not  very  actively,  but  they  are  still  buzzing  among  the  bees.  We  have  gov- 
erned Rhode  Island — the  smallest  State,  to  be  sure,  but  those  of  us  who  have  paternal  ex- 
perience will  remember  that  the  smallest  is  always  the  hardest  to  govern.  We  have  one 
Bishop.  We  have  sent  one  minister  from  Dubuque,  by  the  way  of  Minneapolis,  to  New  York, 
to  rivet  the  shaking  faith  of  the  Knickerbocker  Presbyterians.  More  than  all,  we  have 
the  best  example,  the  best  proof,  that  the  college  athlete  can  become  the  full  round  American 
citizen  (Adee),  a  man  of  affairs,  alert,  alive,  active,  sympathetic  with  old  and  young,  the  realiza- 
tion of  the  ancient  stanza,  "Mens  sana  in  corpore  sano.  atque  rotundo."  And  to  show  how  dif:^ 
ficalt  it  is  to  get  the  equation  of  a  college  boy,  I  remember  one  who  was  a  dropped  H,  a 
forlorn  and  rejected  aspirate,  because  he  could  not  be  equal  to  Day's  Mathematics,  who 
shortly  after,  by  the  vote  of  an  opposing  party,  was  elected  and  re-elected  chief  engineer  of  the 
Empire  State,  and  by  his  maintenance  of  that  great  highway  which  the  genius  of  Clinton 
opened,  added  new  lustre  to  a  name  already  illustrious  in  American  annals.  And  as  for  our 
lawyers,  though  I  had  the  gift  of  tombstones,  Mr.  Chairman,  I  should  not  be  able  to  set  forth 
the  solidity  of  their  merits  and  the  deplorable  magnitude  of  their  success. 

We  alone,  Mr.  Chairman,  can  tell  how  much  we  love  and  reverence  old  Yale.  We 
rejoice  in  its  prosperity;  and  whether  you  call  her  College  or  University,  whether  you  call 
her  queen  or  empress,  we  are  still  her  children  and  her  loyal  subjects.  How  much  we  may 
bring  her  honor  by  bright  achievement,  by  fair  endeavor,  by  honest  life,  we  can  never  know. 
It  remains  for  those  that  follow.     For  in  this  sea  of  human  life  that  from  generation  to  gen- 

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eration  shines  and  surges  in  this  New  Haven,  the  energy  and  vital  swing  of  this  Class  of  '67 
cannot  be  weighed  or  measured  while  its  sweep  is  onward,  and  never  shall  be  until  its 
whitened  crest  shall  fall,  and,  dying,  leave  its  final  mark  on  the  ranks  of  time.   (Applause). 


REMARKS  BY  A.  E.  DUNNING,  %ly  Alumni  Dinner  Commencement,  J  892. 

Mr  President:  The  class  of  '67  cannot  address  you  as  the  President  of  their  College 
days,  and  some  of  our  members  have  waited  a  quarter  of  a  century  before  taking  their  degrees 
in  order  that  they  might  receive  them  at  your  hands.  They  have  been  slow  to  insist  on  the 
truth  as  to  their  deserts  in  this  matter,  perhaps  because  the  truth  needed  to  be  reinforced  by 
loyal  service  in  the  walks  of  business  and  professional  life  in  order  to  justify  their  appeal. 
But,  sir,  you  should  have  heard  the  sublime  confidence  expressed  at  our  reunion  last  night 
that  in  you  and  the  present  members  of  the  corporation  mercy  and  truth  are  met  together; 
and  if  the  well-earned  honors  of  our  class  are  now  impartially  bestowed,  you  will  see  how 
righteousness  and  peace  will  kiss  each  other. 

We  revere  our  own  noble  President  Woolsey,  whose  portrait  now  looks  benignly  down 
on  us.  We  honor  the  memory  of  the  great-hearted  President  Porter,  but  our  ears  have  always 
been  open  to  the  march  of  coming  events  and  the  tread  of  the  coming  man ;  and  we  have  done 
what  we  could  to  prepare  the  way  for  your  splendid  administration.  Long  before  it  was 
settled,  except  in  our  intuitions  and  our  vision  of  the  finger  of  destiny  pointing  to  you  as 
the  leader  to  bring  Yale  College  to  the  front  as  a  great  University,  we  nearly  all  married  and 
arranged  for  large  classes  of  boys  to  be  placed  under  your  care.  We  appreciate  your  efforts 
to  reward  us  by  providing  that  the  wives  of  our  boys  shall  receive  honors  from  our  Alma 
Mater. 

Our  class  has  done  no  discredit  to  Yale.  Its  work  in  the  world  as  representing  the  serv- 
ice which  educated  men  render  society  is  more  varied  and  comprehensive  than  we  anticipated. 
It  has  adorned  the  professions,  it  has  made  honorable  place  for  itself  in  the  world  of  traffic, 
and  it  has  opened  new  lines  of  business.  We  have  also  men  who  have  honored  the  executive 
office,  who  have  served  in  our  legislative  halls,  who  preach  and  practice  and  guide  public 
opinion  through  the  press  and  who  value  their  country's  honor  more  than  their  own  success. 

We  are  glad  also  to  be  able  to  claim  for  our  class  some  special  service  in  behalf  of  this 
University.  Since  our  day  the  intellectual  guidance  given  and  attainments  acquired  in  order 
to  obtain  a  degree  have  been  increased,  and  provision  has  also  been  made  for  better  bodies 
with  which  to  do  this  work,  and  our  class  has  a  hand  in  this.  We  are  proud  that  the  blue 
of  Yale  has  floated  in  triumph  over  many  an  athletic  field,  and  prouder  still  that  her  triumphs 
have  always  been  fairly  won  by  superior  strength  and  skill,  and  that  one  of  the  class  of  '67 — 
Mr.  George  Adee — has  been  able  to  do  so  much  to  create  and  foster  this  enthusiasm  for  ath- 
letic sports,  to  help  erect  this  splendid  gymnasium,  and  build  up  the  spirit  which  expects  to  win 
success  in  life  and  strives  for  it  against  all  odds.     Manhood  is  developed  in  this  growing  de- 


partment  of  Yale's  life.  Lord  Wellington  once  pointed  to  the  playground  of  Eton  and  said: 
■'The  battle  of  Waterloo  was  won  on  that  field."  Many  a  battle,  important  in  the  world's  his- 
tory, and  not  yet  recorded,  has  already  been  won  through  Yale  athletics. 

Most  of  all,  we  have  learned  in  these  25  years  a  profound  respect  for  the  teaching  and 
teachers  of  Yale.  We  have  learned  that  it  is  not  the  chief  business  of  the  University  to  impart 
knowledge.  That  can  be  gained  outside  its  walls  as  well,  and,  perhaps,  even  better  than  within 
them;  but  the  work  of  the  University  is  to  gel  young  men  interested  in  thinking,  to  give 
them  power  to  think,  and  to  teach  them  skillful  methods  of  thinking.  We  honor  your  work, 
gentlemen  of  the  faculty,  far  more  than  we  did  as  college  students.  You  make  life  seem 
worthy  and  great  in  its  possibilities.  You  put  backbone  into  young  men,  which  makes  them 
strong  to  battle  in  life  and  to  conquer.  You  perpetuate  learning  and  maintain  the  high 
appreciation  for  it  without  which  the  nation  would  grow  weak.  For  college  men  learn  here 
that  the  education  which  the  college  can  give  is  worth  more  than  the  highest  business  success 
without  it. 

Yale  helps  greatly  to  keep  our  land  in  peace.  For  our  men  and  women  of  public  spirit 
largely  fall  into  two  clas.ses ;  those  who  have  enthusiasm  without  experience,  and  those  who 
have  experience  without  enthusiasm.  The  first  class  rush  forward  in  reforms  with  a  zeal  un- 
tempered  by  knowledge,  which  for  a  time  carries  many  with  them  and  rebukes  with  scorn  all 
whom  they  leave  behind.  The  other  class  has  been  in  the  fight,  has  not  conquered,  has  come 
lO  distrust  mankind  and  to  despise  those  who  hope  and  expect  that  righteousness  will  tri- 
umph. We  believe  it  is  the  glory  of  Yale  that  she  so  educates  young  men  as  to  combine  in 
them  enthusiasm  with  experience  in  a  way  that  will  last  through  all  their  lives;  as  will  give 
them  the  abiding  conviction  that  God  rules  by  His  infinite  wisdom,  the  broader  view  of  the 
divine  plan  for  mankind  which  history  furnishes,  the  charm  which  springs  from  just  judg- 
ments, and  the  persistent  purpose  which  a  high  ideal  inspires. 

In  this,  the  noblest  of  all  service,  we  assure  you  of  our  confidence,  our  hearty  support, 
and  our  strong  expectation  that  your  work  will  abide  and  will  more  and  more  exalt  our  coun- 
try and  purify  the  world 


REPORT 

OF  THE 
TRIGINTENNIAL  MEETING. 


The  business  meeting  was  held  in  Osborne  Hall  at  1 1  A.  AL,  June  29,  1897. 

Thirty- four  members  of  the  Class  were  present. 

Mr.  Morse,  the  Secretary,  called  the  Class  to  order  and  nominated  C.  C. 
Spellman  to  preside.     The  motion  was  seconded  and  carried. 

Mr.  Morse  then  stated  the  object  of  the  meeting.  He  said  that  the  Commit- 
tee had  waited  upon  Hon.  George  P.  Wetmore  and  asked  him  to  preside  at  the 
meeting  this  evening;  that  in  case  he  could  not  be  present,  owing  to  his  Senatorial 
duties  at  Washington,  Mr.  James  G.  Flanders  had  consented  to  act  as  Alternate. 
He  desired  the  Class  to  ratify  the  choice  of  the  Committee.  To  that  end  it  was 
moved  and  seconded  that  Mr.  Wetmore  preside,  and  that  in  case  of  his  un- 
avoidable absence  Air.  Flanders  should  perform  the  office. 

Air.  Davenport  then  stated  that  the  Committee  had  chartered  a  car  for  the  ball 
game,  which  started  at  2.20. 

Air.  \Mld  stated  that  he  had  tickets  for  the  ball  game. 

Air.  Alorse  then  called  the  attention  of  the  Class  to  a  paper  published  in  the 
mterests  of  the  Alumni  of  Yale,  which  contained  a  good  deal  of  news  each  week 
about  Yale,  and  stated  that  a  representative  of  the  paper  was  present  who  w^ould 
make  a  few  remarks. 

The  gentleman  who  represented  the  paper  stated :  The  Alumni  Weekly  was 
a  paper  of  a  high  order  for  a  College  paper.  The  aim  was  to  make  it  as  interest- 
ing to  graduates  as  possible,  and  this  end  had  been  pretty  well  fulfilled,  but  could 
be  better  fulfilled  by  having  a  greater  number  of  subscribers. 

Air.  Burrell  stated  that  the  paper  was  indispensable. 

Air.  Alorse  suggested  that  those  who  would  like  to  subscribe  had  better  speak 
to  the  agent  at  the  door  as  they  passed  out. 

AIr.  AIorse: — Immediately  after  the  business  meeting,  as  you  will  have  seen 
on  the  cards  which  I  sent  you.  the  next  thing  is  to  meet  at  the  steps  of  the  Osborne 
Hall  and  have  a  group  of  the  Class  taken.     Air.  Wild  has  kindly  had  charge  of 


ihat  matter,  and  he  has  arranged  with  the  photographer  that  if  there  are  twenty- 
five  present,  and  we  have  that  number — we  are  thirty-four — the  photographer  will 
take  the  group  and  charge  75  cents  apiece  for  the  picture ;  and  I  think  it  very  de- 
sirable that  all  be  present  on  the  steps  with  our  best  looks  on. 

Our  supper  occurs  at  7  o'clock  in  the  Law  School  Building,  and  I  would  ask 
Mr.  Wild  to  explain  exactly  how  we  get  there.  I  said  it  was  the  corner  of  Temple 
and  Elm,  and  that  is  Gov.  Ingersoll's  house,  and  we  can't   get  in  there. 

Mk.  Wild: — It  is  on  Elm  street.  Go  right  out  of  College  street  and  turn  to 
the  right.  It  is  nearly  opposite  the  North  Church,  between  Temple  and  Elm 
streets ;  '67  has  a  room  on  the  second  story. 

jMr.  Morse  : — There  is  another  interesting  feature.  We  have  our  supper  on 
the  second  floor  of  that  building,  and  those  of  us  who  were  present  at  the  '92 
meeting  in  Brothers  Hall  will  remember  that  'jj  was  present  in  Linonia,  and 
courtesies  were  exchanged  by  both  classes.  We  are  now  on  the  second  floor  of 
the  Law  Building  and  '"jj  is  on  the  third  floor,  and  we  will  have  another  oppor- 
tunity of  exchanging  courtesies. 

Mr.  Wild  stated  that  seats  at  the  ball  game  had  been  arranged  for  the  Class 
to  sit  all  together. 

Mr  Ingham: — Have  any  arrangements  been  made  for  our  next  reunion? 
I  would  like  to  make  a  suggestion  that  our  next  reunion  be  held  in  1901,  upon  the 
occasion  of  the  bicentennial  celebration  of  Yale  College.  At  that  time  many  of 
the  classes  will  be  here,  and  I  think  it  would  be  better  for  us  to  be  part  of  the 
general  crowd,  instead  of  waiting  until  1902. 

Mr.  Mor.se: — That  matter  came  up  in  the  Class  of  '56,  and  they  decided  to 
hold  their  meeting  in  1900,  on  the  ground  that  at  that  time  (1901)  there  would  be 
so  many  other  matters  of  interest  to  take  up  the  attention  of  the  Alumni  and  grad- 
uates who  would  come  that  there  would  be  no  time  to  have  a  Class  reunion,  and  I 
think  it  would  be  better  to  reconsider  that  matter. 

Mr.  Dexter: — I  rather  favor  Mr.  Ingham's  motion,  on  the  ground  that 
more  would  be  present.  I  move  that  the  motion  be  laid  on  the  table,  and  brought 
up  at  the  supper.     Seconded  and  carried  unanimously. 

Mr.  Morse  : — I  suggest  that  we  all  meet  just  before  7  o'clock  and  go  to  the 
supper  in  a  body.  Suppose  we  meet  on  the  steps  of  the  North  Church  at  a  quarter 
to  seven.    Seconded  and  carried. 

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Mr.  Morse: — It  has  been  suggested  by  the  Committee  that  the  names  of 
those  present  be  taken  now,  so  that  as  each  additional  name  comes  up  we  can  tell 
Mr.  ^Maresi,  the  gentleman  who  has  charge  of  the  dinner,  the  exact  number  he  can 
rely  on. 

Mr.  Adee  : — I  move  that  the  Class  march  from  the  car  into  the  ball  grounds  in 
a  body  singing  "Here's  to  '67;  drink  her  down."    Seconded  and  carried. 

Mr.  Morse: — I  should  like  to  know  where  we  take  the  car  to  go  to  the  ball 
game. 

Mr.  Spellman  : — The  car  starts  from  Trinity  Church  at  2 :20  sharp.  Let 
every  one  remember  Trinity  Church  at  2 :20,  and  North  Church  at  quar- 
ter to  seven. 

yiR.  ^Mokse: — I  move  that  we  adjourn  to  the  steps  below  and  have  our  pic- 
tures taken. 

Seconded  and  carried. 

At  2.20  P.  M.  the  Class  assembled  at  Trinity  Church  and  took  a  car  which 
had  been  chartered  by  the  committee  for  the  ball  grounds. 

Headed  by  Mr.  Davenport,  of  the  Committee,  who  carried  a  large  blue  silk 
banner  on  which  were  the  words,  "Yale ;  Class  of  '67,"  the  Class  entered  the 
grounds,  and  were  assigned  seats  opposite  first  base.  They  were  enthusiastically 
cheered  by  the  occupants  of  the  grand  stand.  They  were  the  oldest  graduates 
thai  attended  the  game  as  a  class. 

Of  the  game  little  need  be  said,  except  that  it  does  not  always  turn  out  that 
way. 

Promptly  at  7  o'clock  the  Class  met  at  North  Church  and,  headed  by  Flanders 
and  the  Secretary,  marched  to  the  Yale  Law  School  building,  where  on  the  second 
story  a  room  had  been  provided  for  '67. 

DINNER. 

Addresses  at  the  Class  Dinner  of  '67,  June  29th,  1897 : 

James  G.  Flanders,  the  Hon.  George  P.  Wetmore  being  absent,  presided  at 
the  meeting  of  the  Class. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — Gentlemen  of  the  Class  of  1867,  it  is  certainly  not  inappro- 
priate after  the  lapse  of  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  centun,-,  when  we  meet  to  cele- 
brate our  reunion,  that  one  of  our  Class  should  make  our  acknowledgments  to  the 
Creator,  and  I  will  ask  the  Rev.  Mr.  Sprag^e  to  do  so. 

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Mr.  Sprague: — Our  Father  in  Heaven,  we  thank  Thee  for  this  reunion  of 
our  Class,  for  the  prosperity  Thou  hast  given  us  in  the  past;  we  thank  Thee  for 
Thy  kind  Providence.  We  recognize  Thy  hand  of  love  in  all  our  doings,  and  we 
call  upon  our  souls,  and  all  that  is  within  us,  to  bless  and  magnify  Thy  holy  name. 
We  ask  Thv  blessing,  for  Christ's  sake.     Amen. 


Mr.  Flanders  : — Gentlemen  of  the  Class  of  1867 :  I  count  it  an  honor  to  preside  over  this 
Class  at  its  thirtieth  anniversary,  especially  in  view  of  the  fact  that  I  am  one  of  few  to 
whom  this  meeting  comes  as  the  first  reunion  since  we  graduated  from  Yale.  I  am  aware 
that  were  it  not  for  the  absence  of  the  distinguished  Senator  from  Rhode  Island  I  should  not 
be  in  this  place,  and  perhaps  I  ought  not  to  be  in  the  place  at  all  by  reason  of  my  previous 
absences ;  but,  gentlemen  of  this  Class,  I  have  been  here  at  every  reunion,  if  not  in  the  flesh, 
at  least  in  the  spirit.  (Applause.)  I  look  back  to  the  years  which  I  spent  in  old  Yale  as 
among  the  pleasantest,  the  most  fruitful,  and  the  most  beneficial  of  any  in  the  life  which  I 
have  spent,  and  if  I  have  learned  any  lesson  in  those  years  of  contest,  it  has  been  that  this 
old  Alma  Mater  of  ours  qualified  us  well  for  the  contest,  and  sent  us  out  upon  equal  terms  with 
all  the  world.  So,  gentlemen,  when  we  look  at  the  Class  of  1867,  and  read  its  record  in  the 
years  that  have  passed,  we  find  that  all  of  the  members  of  the  Class  have  filled  honorable 
positions  in  the  communities  in  which  they  live,  and  that  many  of  them  have  risen  to  eminence. 
Until  I  heard  Brother  Burrell  this  morning  in  Alumni  Hall,  I  was  of  the  opinion  that  we 
were  a  modest  Class  (laughter),  and  I  was  reminded  on  that  occasion  of  a  story  which  was 
told  of  some  of  the  students  of  a  University  with  which  we  have  competed,  and  with  which 
we  have  had  contests  in  which  we  have  succeeded.  In  Delmonico's  in  New  York  it  is  said 
that  a  gentleman  connected  with  the  New  York  press,  not  particularly  modest,  came  in  one 
day  attended  by  three  friends,  and  he  found  plenty  of  tables  at  which  there  were  seats  for 
two,  but  no  tables  at  which  there  were  seats  for  four,  except  one  at  which  sat  two  Harvard 
-Students,  so  he  asked  them  to  exchange  their  table  and  let  him  sit  there  with  his  friends,  and 
they  did  so.  As  he  walked  out  he  said  to  the  students:  "Perhaps  you  would  like  to  know 
whom  you  have  accommodated?  This  is  Frank  Stockton,  the  celebrated  novelist;  this  is 
Lawrence  Hutton,  the  artist;  this  is  H.  C.  Bunner,  of  'Puck,'  and  I  am  Mr.  Smith,  of  the 
'Daily  Union.'  "  "Ah,  indeed,"  said  the  Harvard  student.  "Very  glad  to  hear  it.  Perhaps 
you  would  like  to  know  who  accommodated  you  ?  This  is  Prince  Bismarck,  and  I  am  Kaiser 
Wilhelm."  Now,  I  thought  by  contrast  until  this  morning  that  we  were  modest,  and  I  believe 
still  that  most  of  us  are,  and  I  won't  make  any  exception  of  Burrell  (laughter),  but  we  have 
a  right  here  in  this  banquet  hall  to-night,  when  we  sit  here  as  members  of  the  same  family, 
to  look  back  over  these  thirty  years,  and  see  what  this  Class  of  1867  has  accomplished,  and 
we  see  that  when  the  great  State  of  Rhode  Island  wanted  a  gentleman  to  fill  the  distinguished 
office  of  Senator  it  looked  to  the  Class  of  1867  and  chose  for  that  honored  position  Wetmore ; 
and  when  again  the  Episcopal  Church,  or  (if  I  were  not  in  the  presence  of  some  reverends 


who  are  not  of  that  faith)  I  might  say,  the  Church  in  Southern  Ohio,  wanted  a  Bishop,  they 
went  for  that  Bishop  to  the  Class  of  1867,  and  chose  our  Boyd  Vincent;  and,  again,  gentle- 
men, when  Grover  Cleveland  wanted  a  man  to  honor  the  Bench  whom  did  he  chose  but 
Showalter,  now  present  with  us ;  and  when,  again,  one  of  the  most  distinguished  churches  in 
the  City  of  New  York  wanted  a  man  to  fill  its  pulpit,  and  adorn  and  honor  it,  whom  did  they 
call  but  Dave  Burrell.  against  whom  we  have  fought,  with  whom  we  have  competed,  but  for 
whom  we  have  long  cherished  affection  and  admiration  ;  and  when  the  State  of  California, 
upon  the  far  Pacific  Coast,  w-hich  at  the  time  we  were  in  College  was  terra  incognita,  when 
the  State  of  California  wanted  one  member  of  the  profession  of  which  I  am  proud  to  be  a 
member  to  sit  upon  the  Bench,  whom  should  they  call  but  Jim  Allen,  who  has  come  three 
thousand  miles  to  be  here  to-night.  And,  gentlemen,  I  could  call  the  roll  of  this  Class,  living 
and  dead,  from  end  to  end,  and  that  roll,  as  I  called  it.  would  be  a  roll  of  honor.  I  could 
refer  to  our  brother  Bruce,  a  creditable  and  worthy  representative  of  our  Government  in  1889 
in  Edinburgh.  I  could  refer  to  those  m.embers  of  my  own  profession,  who  have  been  dis- 
tinguished at  the  Bar.  I  could  refer  to  those  men  who  in  business  life  have  all  stood  as 
pillars  in  the  community  in  which  they  lived ;  but,  gentlemen,  I  will  spare  you  the  infliction 
of  a  long  speech  lest  none  of  it  should  be  remembered  by  you.  Perhaps,  however,  I  ought 
to  tell  one  little  story.  A  lawyer  of  our  city,  who  for  the  purposes  of  this  story  may  be 
called  Jones  and  who  had  the  reputation  of  being  prolix,  had  it  said  of  him  that  he  was  re- 
tained by  a  citizen  named  Smith  to  appear  for  him  in  an  equity  case,  and  this  citizen  was 
invited  to  Mr.  Jones's  office  to  listen  to  the  answer  Smith  was  to  swear  to;  and  it  was  said 
that  Jones  read  the  answer  and  fv-^ad  until  it  was  dinner  time,  and  after  dinner  he  read  and 
read  until  it  was  supper  time.  After  supper  they  came  back,  and  he  read  and  read  and  read 
until  the  evening  was  gone,  and  then  he  asked  Smith  if  he  could  swear  to  it,,  and  Smith  said 
he  would  be  damned  if  he  had  not  forgotten  the  first  part  of  it.  I  would,  however,  say  one 
other  thing  of  our  Class :  A  gentleman,  who  was  a  Senior  when  we  were  Freshmen,  and  a 
Senior  when  we  were  Sophomores,  a  Senior  in  our  Senior  year,  a  member  of  our  Class 
whom  we  delighted  to  honor,  respect  and  love — that  gentleman  is  here  to-night,  commg  here 
from  the  Old  World,  from  the  City  of  Munich,  which  has  been  his  residence  for  more  than 
ten  years,  and  as  I  am  informed  it  has  been  the  custom  at  these  reunions  to  give  the  first 
opportunity  of  being  heard  to  that  classmate  who  has  made  the  greatest  sacrifice  in  coming 
here  to  meet  us,  I  ask  you,  gentlemen,  to  listen  to-night  to  what  shall  be  said  to  us  by  our 
friend  and  classmate,  Spencer, 

Mr.  Spencer  : — Classmates,  I  did  not  come  here  to  make  a  speech.  It  has  been  my  object 
in  coming  here  solely  to  see  you  once  more — to  see  your  welcome  faces,  and  to  clasp  your 
hands.  In  place  of  a  speech  perhaps  you  would  like  to  know  something  of  what  I  am — what 
I  have  been  doing — more  I  cannot  tell.  You  know  when  I  left  the  Class,  for  six  years  I  was 
engaged  in  the  instruction  of  the  deaf  and  dumb.  I  chose  that  as  my  profession.  Six  years 
I  devoted  myself  to  that  work,  working  hard,  sleeping  five  hours  only,  and  at  the  end  of  that 
time  I  thought  I  would  divert  my  attention  from  mathematics  to  chemistry,  and  for  that  pur- 

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pose  I  went  to  Munich  to  study.  There  1  have  been  residing  ever  since.  It  was  hard  for  me 
to  get  away  from  Munich,  but  the  professors  there  told  me  that  it  was  better  to  come  here  and 
welcome  those  whom  I  had  not  seen  for  so  long,  even  though  what  I  should  bring  would  be 
but  scanty  fruit  of  the  harvest  of  thirty  years.  After  my  studies  there  began  I  was  afflicted 
with  an  illness  of  a  very  serious  nature.  Its  consequences  are  still  upon  me.  I  suffered  so 
that  I  was  totally  deaf  for  eight  months.  I  lost  the  memory  of  all  the  mathematics  which  I 
studied  in  College — all  that  I  had  tried  to  study  for  six  j^ears  subsequent,  and  many  Dranciie> — 
navigation,  for  instance — that  I  studied  in  College,  I  have  totally  forgotten.  Work  under 
such  circumstances  somewhat  depressed  me  But  after  five  years  I  was  pretty  well  recov- 
ered, and  I  thought  strong  enough  to  work  again.  At  that  time  I  married  and  began  to  work 
under  Prof.  vMlinger  again,  but  after  two  years  of  labor  I  broke  down  once  more,  and  since 
that  time  I  have  been  spending  my  life  as  well  as  I  could  in  studying  languages,  science  and 
art,  and  wandering  from  place  to  place,  a  useless  member  of  society.  (Cries  of  "No,  no.") 
I  thank  you  for  your  kindness  and  generosity  to-night  in  calling  upon  me,  and  I  wish  you  all 
God-speed. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — Gentlemen,  I  will  ask  now  that  you  listen  to  the  report  of 
tiie  Class  Secretary,  which  probably  I  should  have  asked  for  before. 

Mr.  Morse  then  read  his  report. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — Gentlemen,  what  action  do  you  take  on  the  report  of  the 
Secretary  ? 

Motion  made  and  seconded  that  it  be  accepted  with  thanks,  and  that  the 
thanks  of  the  Class  be  tendered  to  George  Adee,  Davenport,  Wild  and  Morse. 
Carried. 

Mr.  Flanders: — Gentlemen,  in  the  winter  of  1896,  in  the  City  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, Jim  Allen  told  me  that  he  was  coming  on  to  attend  this  reunion  in  1897. 
I  was  therefore  not  surprised  to  find  him  here  when  I  arrived  yesterday,  and  I 
know  that  it  will  give  pleasure  tO'  us  all  to  hear  from  him  to-night. 

Mr.  Allen  : — Boys,  I  am  not  much  in  the  speaking  line,  and  j'ou  can  scarce  expect  one  of 
my  ability  to  make  a  speech,  but  perhaps  you  would  like  to  know  how  I  feel  towards  the 
Class,  and  how  delighted  I  am  to  get  back  to  the  Class.  It  is  thirty  years  since  I  have  been 
here,  and  I  have  seen  very  little  of  you.  There  are  two  things  about  Yale  that  I  have  noticed, 
and  that  have  made  a  great  impression  upon  me;  one  is  the  democratic  spirit  that  pervades 
Yale,  and  as  I  walked  around  the  buildings  here  on  Sunday  morning  on  the  old  South  Middle, 
I  remembered  how  I  took  my  pitcher,  and  filled  it,  and  brought  it  in  to  have  a  bath.  Boys, 
did  you  go  to  prayers  Sunday  morning?  I  always  did,  and  never  went  in  my  night  shirt, 
either.       (Laughter.)     But  I  was  just  wondering  whether  this  luxury  springing  up  here  will 

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not  expel  this  democratic  spirit.  If  there  is  anything  this  country  needs  now  it  is  this  demo- 
cratic feeling.  Another  thing,  I  hope  the  time  will  come  when  Yale  will  take  an  mterest  in 
primary  education.  I  am  deeply  interested  in  that,  because,  living  in  the  country,  I  have  to 
think  how  to  educate  my  five  children,  as  I  have  discovered  that  the  masses  receive  very  little 
education.  I  have  had  the  misfortune  to  become  an  amateur  farmer,  notwithstanding  Greeley's 
example,  and  I  have  had  the  same  experience  as  Greeley,  and  that  has  added  to  my  desire  to 
have  primary  education  spread,  because  to  see  the  incompetency  among  the  laborers  is  really 
remarkable.  It  is  simply  because  the  farm  laborers  want  training,  and  unless  we  take  a  hand 
in  this,  and  see  that  these  people  are  properly  trained,  and  early,  too.  before  they  arrive  at 
the  age  of  twelve,  unless  we  give  them  all  the  education  we  possibly  can,  I  believe  this 
country  will  not  be  a  Republic  for  very  many  years  more,  but  that  the  power  will  come  into  the 
hands  of  the  strongest.  There  is  another  thing  I  noticed  in  Yale;  it  is  the  gentlemanly 
feeling,  and  I  must  say  that  when  I  first  went  out  into  the  world  it  did  not  redound  to  my 
advantage,  because  I  supposed  that  when  I  left  Yale  I  should  find  just  as  many  gentlemen 
in  the  outside  world  as  I  found  in  College,  but  I  soon  had  my  eye  teeth  cut  and  I  learned  that 
a  gentleman  in  the  outside  world  is  a  rare  article.  Those  two  things  I  have  noticed  in  Yale, 
and  those  things  have  influenced  me.  Another  thing.  I  have  never  formed  the  friendships 
since  I  have  been  out  of  College  that  I  did  here.  I  have  friends  outside  of  College,  but  I 
never  have  had  the  same  feeling — I  do  not  feel  as  free  and  homelike.  I  cannot  feel  towards 
them  as  a  friend  as  I  do  to  the  men  of  Yale,  and  it  is  a  great  delight  to  come  here.  I  have 
come  here  especially  to  meet  you.  I  had  made  up  my  mind  that  nothing  should  prevent  my 
being  at  this  meeting.  It  has  been  a  great  pleasure  to  me  to  meet  you.  and  find  so  few  of  you 
that  have  changed  from  my  remembrance  of  you.  I  sincerely  hope  that  I  shall  meet  you  all 
thirty  vears  hence. 


Mr.  Flanders  : — Some  of  us  at  least  who  have  spent  four  years  in  Yale  have 
been  struggling  pretty  hard  to  make  a  living — some  have  made  a  competency. 
We  have  with  us  to-night  a  gentleman  who,  I  think,  was  only  with  us  one  year  or 
a  little  more,  who,  in  the  thirty  years  that  have  elapsed  since  we  graduated,  has 
placed  himself  in  such  a  position  that  he  has  nothing  now  to  embarrass  him,  ex- 
cept the  difficulty  of  spending  the  money  that  he  has  made,  and,  with  such  slight 
education,  such  slight  opportunities  in  Yale,  he  is  a  living  example  of  the  great 
climate  which  we  have  in  the  West,  which  makes  people  grow,  and  grow  fast,  and 
grow  large,  and  grow  well,  and  I  ask  you,  gentlemen,  now  to  hear  the  experiences 
of  our  brother  Nelson,  from  St.  Louis. 

Mr.  L.  C.  Nelson  : — Friends  and  Classmates :    I  am  away  off  in  many  respects  from  the 
happy  place  in  which  you  have  put  me,  and  in  which  I  would  like  to  be.       I  was  here  five 

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years  ago,  and  I  am  very  glad  to  be  here  to-night  and  to  meet  a  great  many  people,  amongst 
them  those  whom  I  did  not  see  here  five  years  ago ;  but  in  the  last  thirty  years — it  is  more 
than  thirty  years  since  I  left  Yale,  and  those  whom  I  met  here  at  that  time  I  am  pleased  to 
meet  here  to-night.  They  have  been  years  of  hard  work  for  me,  and  these  meetmgs  here  arc 
oases  in  the  years  of  work.  Since  I  left  the  Class  I  can  say  that  my  life  has  been  one  of 
close  application  to  business.  I  have  now  retired  from  active  life,  and  a  very  pleasant  life, 
in  the  banking  business.  I  may  say  here  that  it  has  been  a  most  pleasant  busmess,  and  I 
advise  you  all  to  go  into  it.  I  am  now  living  in  the  suburbs  of  our  great  city,  which  rests 
on  the  banks  of  the  Mississippi.  I  can  look  down  on  the  smoke  and  turmoil  under  my  vine 
and  fig  tree,  and  know  that  I  am  in  the  peace  and  quietude  which  is  always  the  reward  of  the 
virtuous  and  good. 

Mr.  Flanders: — Gentlemen,  I  feel  very  sure  that  during  these  thirty  years 
no  member  of  the  Class  of  '67  has  thought  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  without  a 
warmth  of  feeling  towards  Charley  Goodman,  one  of  the  leaders,  if  not  the  leader 
in  his  profession  in  that  city,  I  am  informed  that  all  the  Federal  judges  in  that 
Federal  Circuit  (the  largest  Federal  Circuit  in  the  United  States,  comprising,  T 
believe,  nine  States)  are  patients  of  Dr.  Goodman,  and  they  are  not  only  all  alive, 
but  their  lives  are  insured  until  the  end  of  the  next  century.  I  ask  you,  gentle- 
men, to  listen  to  Dr.  Goodman. 

Dr.  C.  H.  Goodman  : — Now,  I  have  no  speech  to  make,  boys,  but  I  was  really  beginning 
to  feel  a  little  badly  after  hearing  all  the  professions  spoken  so  highly  of  in  connection  with 
this  Class  by  our  distinguished  Chairman — all,  I  say,  except  the  medical  profession.  I  was 
beginning  to  feel  a  little  badly,  but  I  take  it  all  back,  when  I  look  around  and  see  Darby 
Mann,  and  Bob  Allison,  and  I  dont  know  of  anybody  else,  who  has  got  into  this  medical 
profession — (Cries  of  "Landis") — yes,  Landis,  poor  Landis.  and  Porter — I  am  not  going  to 
let  that  profession  go  by  default.  You  know  what  Darby  Mann  has  done — done  for  himself, 
and  done  for  the  medical  profession.  (Applause.)  There  is  not  a  medical  man  in  the 
country  who  does  not  know  the  name  of  M.  D.  Mann  for  what  he  has  done  in  medical  science. 
Now,  Darby  Mann  has  not  only  done  this  for  himself,  but  for  society,  his  family,  and  for 
the  Class.  I  think  that  what  any  of  us  have  done  is  not  only  for  his  own  selfish  purpose, 
but  for  the  general  good  of  those  with  whom  he  is  associated.  Now,  I  need  not  tell  you 
about  Bob  Allison.  Bob  has  written  himself  on  the  hearts  of  every  man  here.  It  gives  me 
pleasure  to  talk  about  Dr.  Allison.  He  is  an  honor  to  himself  and  to  his  class.  I  have 
scratched  along  and  managed  to  make  a  living.  I  have  a  boy  in  college  who  does  not  owe  any 
money,  I  think,  and  he  is  a  pretty  decent  sort  of  boy.  We  are  a  modest  Class,  and  I  like  to 
get  back  here  with  you  fellows — some  of  you  are  younger  than  I  am,  but  I  doubt  if  any  of 
you  have  a  younger  heart  than  I  have  to-night.     I  had  to  look  two  or  three  times  at  some 

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ot  the  men  before  I  recognized  them,  but  when  they  spoke  of  old  times  I  remembered  them — 
they  were  just  the  same  as  when  they  sat  on  the  fence.  We  are  all  boys  to-night  again.  I 
have  not  words  to  tell  you  how  I  have  been  affected  in  the  last  forty-eight  hours  since  I  have 
been  in  New  Haven  and  met  you  all,  and  I  feel  as  though  I  should  like  to  have  a  big  pair 
of  arms  and  take  you  all  in  and  tell  you  how  much  I  love  yoit,  and  I  think  that  is  the  real 
thing — the  sentiment  that  is  born  here  in  College.  It  is  just  what  Jim  Allen  says  about  the 
friendships  we  made  in  Yale.  I  like  to  tell  j'ou  this  to-night — I  like  to  confess  it.  It  is  no 
sign  of  weakness,  and  if  we  have  grown  to  be  fifty  or  fifty-five  years  of  age  it  is  no  tumbling 
down  from  our  dignity  to  say  how  much  we  love  each  other.  Although  at  St.  Louis  we  are 
a  great  distance  from  you  we  have  kept  up  the  Yale  spirit.  And  we  have  at  St.  Louis  Tom 
Hedge.  A  good  many  of  you  fellows  don't  know  Tom  Hedge.  (Cries  of  "Who  don't  know 
Tom  Hedge?")  You  don't  know  Tom  Hedge  since  he  left  College.  Tom  ain't  what  he 
was,  but  Tom  is  everywhere  a  type  of  all  who  go  out  of  Yale,  after  all.  He  belongs  to  Yale 
alumni  associations  in  Chicago  and  in  St.  Louis,  and  in  every  other  State  in  the  Union  where 
he  could  go.  He  has  a  passport  to  every  alumni  association  that  I  know  of.  Now,  as  I  said. 
I  cannot  make  a  speech  to  you,  but  I  want  to  thank  you  for  the  kind  words  you  have  said,  and 
tell  }'ou  again  how  much  pleasure  it  has  given  me  to  see  you  all — those  with  gray  heads,  those 
with  gray  beards,  those  who  are  rich,  and  tho.=e  who  are  poor.     (Applause.) 

Mr.  Flanders: — Gentlemen,  when  I  first  left  my  home,  a  boy  of  fifteen 
years  of  age.  for  the  preparatory  school  at  Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  my  home 
being  in  Milwaukee,  it  took  me  four  days  and  four  nights  to  reach  Exeter,  and  at 
that  time  the  City  of  Minneapolis  was  two  or  three  days  beyond  us  towards  the 
frontier.  To-day  Minneapolis  and  its  sister  city,  St.  Paul,  make  a  great  center, 
from  which  radiate  large  interests.  One  of  our  classmates  made  his  home  at 
Minneapolis,  and  he  has  come  that  distance  to  visit  us.  Mr.  Beard  will  now  speak 
to  us. 

Mr.  H.  B.  Beard  : — About  a  week  ago  I  received  a  letter  from  a  friend  of  mine,  who  was 
a  Yale  man,  but  not  of  this  Class,  and  in  it  was  a  clipping  from  the  New  York  "Tribitne," 
and  with  my  family  around  me  on  the  veranda  I  took  it  out  and  read  it.  It  spoke  of  the 
distinguished  Class  of  1867  and  some  of  its  members.  I  read  and  re-read  it,  and  it  did  me 
good.  It  reminded  me  of  a  story  my  father  used  to  tell.  A  family  had  a  bright  boy,  who 
grew  up,  and  after  a  time  became  Governor  of  the  State.  The  family  were  very  much 
pleased,  and  after  election  one  evening  they  were  sitting  around  the  fireplace,  discussing  the 
good  fortune  of  the  family,  and  of  Tom.  They  were  talking  over  the  matter,  when  an  old 
colored  woman,  a  slave  who  belonged  to  one  of  the  family,  sitting  there  with  them  at  the 
fireplace,  arose  and  said :  "Oh.  pshaw,  nobody  but  our  Tom !"  Now,  when  I  read  of  the 
distinguished  men  of  our  Class  I  rejoice  that  I  am  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1867,  and  when 


I  come  back  to-night  I  rejoice  that  with  all  the  distinguished  men  with  whom  I  am  sur- 
rounded to-night  I  can  say,  after  all,  they  are  nobody  but  the  boys  of  '67.  When  I  see  the 
old  boys  I  can  read  of  the  men,  and  can  rejoice  in  the  Class,  and  with  the  community  at  large. 
I  say  I  can  rejoice  when  I  read  about  what  the  distinguished  doctor  of  divinity  is  doing,  what 
the  jurist  is  doing,  what  the  physician  is  doing.  I  come  here  to-night  with  my  heart  filled 
with  joy  to  see  the  old  boys,  and  to  know  them  as  I  did  in  1867.  It  does  me  good.  I  have 
seen  the  ups  and  downs  of  life.  I  have  seen  the  hard  side  of  life.  I  have  seen  the  other  side 
of  life.  When  I  take  the  hand  of  a  man  who  has  been  in  Yale  I  feel  as  I  never  feel  when  I 
take  the  hand  of  any  other  man.  I  feel  as  if  I  took  the  hand  of  a  brother.  I  feel  that  if  I 
were  in  trouble,  and  could  see  a  Yale  man,  he  would  sympathize  with  me.  We  are  all  boys 
together  to-night.  I  feel  strong  to-night  in  spite  of  the  troubles  I  have  been  through.  I  feel 
as  Lincoln  did  once  when  he  was  having  difficulty.  He  stood  up  and  said :  "There  is  a  man 
here ;  there  is  a  man  there ;  here  is  a  man,  and  every  one  of  us  is  a  man,  and  not  ashamed 
of  his  record  or  of  his  life."  I  do  not  know  of  a  man  in  Yale  but  who  is  an  honor  to  the 
community  in  which  he  lives.  He  is  always  a  gentleman  and  a  man  at  all  times.  Now, 
I  have  looked  forward  to  this  time  with  a  great  deal  of  pleasure,  and  I  will  go  out  of  this 
place  strengthened.  I  feel  as  if  I  could  battle  with  the  world.  After  I  come  here  and  meet 
you  men  I  go  out  stronger;  I  do  not  care  what  I  meet,  because  I  know  that  there  is  a  man 
here,  and  I  got  that  manhood  at  Yale.  I  feel  to-night  that  I  can  go  out  again  for  the  next 
five  years,  and  for  the  whole  five  years  I  shall  look  forward  to  another  reunion.  We  shall 
have  perhaps  twenty  years  more  of  life,  and  what  cannot  be  accomplished  in  that  time? 
What  a  power  in  this  world  the  boys  of  '67  will  be  twenty  years  hence.  We  are  not  old 
men  yet.    Let  me  say  once  more  I  am  glad,  brothers,  to  meet  you  to-night.     (Applause.) 

Mr.  Flanders  : — There  used  to  be  a  good  deal  of  mvisic  in  the  Class  of  '67.  I 
believe  there  is  some  left,  and  I  think  we  might  have  a  song.  I  will  ask  George 
Adee  to  start  it  up. 

Mr.  Adee  sings  the  "Cork  Leg."    Chorus  by  the  Class.    (Great  applause.) 

Mr.  Flanders: — Gentlemen,  it  is  said  that  at  one  I'rie  an  Englishman  and  a 
Yankee  were  travelling  in  the  State  of  Colorado,  and  iho  question  arose  as  to 
whether  Englishmen  had  any  sense  of  humor  in  them,  or  were  capable  of  compre- 
hending anything  humorous.  The  American  said  they  had  not,  and  the  English- 
man disputed  it.  Finally  they  came  to  a  little  blacksmith  shop  with  a  sign  which 
said.  "Four  miles  to  Bitter  Creek.  If  you  cannot  read  go  in  and  ask  the  black- 
smith." The  Yankee  began  to  laugh.  The  Englishman  asked  what  he  was 
laughing  at.  The  Yankee  said,  "You  cannot  see  the  joke.  I  told  you  so,  but  I 
will  set  up  the  champagne  if  you  can  see  it  by  12  o'clock  to-night."  That  night 
the  Englishman  woke  the  Yankee  out  of  a  sound  sleep,  telling  him  he  saw  it. 

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"What  do  you  see?"  "Well/"  said  the  Englishman,  "I  see  the  joke."  "What  is 
it?"  "Why,  the  blacksmith  might  not  be  in,  you  know."  Gentlemen,  the  next 
classmate  who  will  address  you  is  not  an  Englishman,  and  his  name  is  Tom 
Hedge.  To  say  that  you  do  not  know  Tom  Hedge  is  to  confess  yourself  un- 
known. 

Mr.  Hedge  : — Well,  I  do  not  feel  much  like  seeing  jokes  or  exhibiting  any ;  I  have  been 
considerably  sobered  up  in  coming  back  here,  but  I  am  much  rejoiced  to  find  that  I  am  not 
an  old  man  yet.  In  this  last  five  years  I  have  sometimes  suspected  that  I  was  getting 
old,  but  in  the  last  few  days  I  have  found  out  that  a  man  never  needs  to  get  old.  When  I 
came  here  last  Thursday  I  saw  Ingham  with  white  hair,  but  he  is  the  same  old  Ingham  that 
we  used  to  know.  I  saw  many  more  heads  that  I  did  not  see  so  distinctly  thirty  years  ago 
as  I  do  now ;  but  I  have  not  found  anybody  in  the  Class  of  '67  who  has  worn  out  his  old 
College  feeling.  He  may  have  put  it  away ;  he  may  not  have  been  conscious  at  all  times  in 
his  life  that  it  was  governing  him  and  controlling  him,  and  making  him  stand  straight  in  this 
world,  but  it  has  been  a  sort  of  outer  conscience  to  him,  which  has  never  deserted  him.  I  see 
that  every  one  of  us  has  that  same  outer  conscience,  that  same  Yale  feeling,  which  comes 
right  back  and  takes  possession  of  him,  and  makes  him  a  boy  again,  perhaps  a  little  wiser, 
but  I  do  not  know  and  do  not  care :  we  have  been  wise  enough  to  be  good  and  true  to  each 
other — that  goodness  and  truth  which  is  the  best  gift  that  Yale  could  give  us.  The  boy 
who  was  a  good  boy  to  his  classmates  has  been  a  good  boy  to  his  neighbors,  to  his  wife,  and 
to  his  boys  and  girls ;  and  these  Yale  meetings — these  kind  words  spoken  to  one  another, 
spoken  heartily  and  sincerely,  as  they  always  have  been  in  my  experience,  because  I  have  got 
it  to  say  right  here  and  now — and  I  have  belonged  to  two  classes  in  Yale  College — I  do  not 
remember  a  time  when  I  was  not  treated  with  all  kindness  and  sincerity  by  every  man  in 
Yale  College  with  whom  I  associated,  and  nobody  can  tell  what  a  bankrupt  debtor  I  have 
been  to  the  courtesy  and  good  will  of  you  all.  Now,  I  have  got  a  boy  here  in  College,  and 
the  only  thing  that  bothers  me  is  this  suggestion  that  somehow  or  other  the  old  spirit  is  not 
here.  I  do  not  believe  it.  I  believe  that  the  Yale  spirit  is  going  to  live  here  forever.  I 
believe  that  our  boys,  who  are  succeeding  us,  are  going  to  be  just  as  true  to  themselves  and 
their  neighbors,  and  their  country,  as  we  can  be.  It  has  given  us  all  extreme  pleasure  to  see 
this  old  Jim  Spencer  coming  back  from  the  Old  World  the  same  true  Jim  Spencer  he  was 
thirty  years  ago.  He  has  done  me  more  good  to-night  than  any  minister  in  any  church  has 
done  in  the  last  five  years  to  this  assembly,  and  I  do  not  throw  this  out  as  a  challenge,  because 
it  will  not  be  accepted  as  a  challenge ;  it  will  be  agreed  to.  Now,  I  say  to  you  fellows,  those 
who  do  not  come  to  these  meetings  often,  come  often.  And,  Air.  Chairman,  you  have  been 
one  of  the  worst,  you  have  all  the  facilities  to  come,  and  all  the  transportation — your  pocket 
full  of  it.  (Laughter.)  You  Yale  fellows  with  your  knowledge  of  the  world,  do  not  let  this 
Cockney  spirit  get  possession  of  you,  that  the  United  States  is  located  east  of  Albany.  The 
United  States  of  America  owns  east  of  Albany,  but  the  United  States  of  America  is  located 

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and  has  its  throne  in  the  Mississippi  valley,  and  you  fellows  want  to  come  out  there  and  see 
how  we  live.  Mortgaged !  Yes,  but  we  can  pay  it  if  you  only  give  us  time.  Bob  Ingersoll 
?aid  once,  a  friend  of  his  was  standing  on  the  hank  of  the  Missouri  River  and  he  said :  "The 
Missouri  River  is  all  right,  only  give  it  time.'  Now,  then,  1  want  you  to  come  west  and  see 
the  Rocky  Mountains  and  Milwaukee,  and  Anheuser  Busch  in  St.  Louis,  where  every  educated 
man  thinks  A.  B.  stands  for  Anheuser  Busch.  We  have  an  association  there  of  over  two 
hundred  people,  and  they  can  tote  the  Anheuser  Busch.  We  have  an  association  in  Chicago 
of,  I  do  not  know  how  many  Yale  men.  We  have  an  association  in  Minneapolis.  Ya'e 
College  has  taken  possession  of  the  Western  country,  and  you  fellows  have  been  living  here 
thinking  that  you  were  Yale  College  and  the  United  States  of  America.  Boys,  I  thank  you 
for  the  attention  you  have  given  me,  and  for  the  responsive  kindness  with  which  you  have 
met  me  from  the  time  when  I  came  as  a  Sophomore  in  1864,  and  I  hope  to  see  you  again  for 
fifty  years  more. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — Gentlemen,  we  have  heard  from  the  profession  of  the  law, 
we  have  heard  from  medicine,  we  have  heard  from  hankers.  We  have  with  us 
to-night  one  classmate  whom  I  have  not  seen  for  more  than  thirty  years,  and  yet 
he  looks  as  he  did  in  Yale  in  those  days,  except  that  he  is  grayer.  He  has  come 
to  us  from  the  land  of  alligators  and  oranges — Sprague,  from  Tampa. 

Rev.  F.  M.  Sprague  : — I  think  it  was  Dr.  Holmes  who  said  once  that  he  was  seventy  years 
young.  That  sentiment  has  been  often  expressed,  but  if  anybody  asks  me  my  age  I  feel 
like  saying  that  I  was  fifty-four  years  young.  I  often  wish  to  spend  my  life  over  again.  A 
fellow  in  Cambridge  was  very  much  surprised  to  read  his  obituary  notice.  The  neighbors 
came  in  to  learn  the  particulars.  At  length  the  situation  became  intolerable,  so  lie  went  to 
the  editor  of  the  newspaper  which  published  the  obituary  and  asked  him  what  it  meant, 
showing  him  the  notice.  "Ah,  it  is  a  mistake,  I  see,"  said  the  editor  blandly,  "I  should 
think  it  was.  I  am  not  only  alive,  but  I  was  never  better  in  my  life."  "Oh,  yes,"  said  the 
editor.  "Well,  what  do  you  propose  to  do  about  it?"  "Do  about  it?"  said  the  editor. 
"Yes.  this  is  intolerable.  What  do  you  propose  to  do  about  it?"  The  editor  said:  "Well, 
we  will  make  it  all  right.  We  will  put  you  in  the  list  of  births,  and  start  you  over  again.' 
I  think,  perhaps,  some  of  us  would  like  to  be  started  over  again.  Most  of. us  have  done 
what  we  could.  I  have  not  done  as  well  as  some  of  the  class.  I  have  kept  track  of  certain 
ones  in  my  section.  I  have  been  well  acquainted  with  Dunning  and  Dexter,  who  are  widely 
known  as  editors  and  authors,  and  Bruce  first  on  the  lecture  platform.  I  know  Burrell.  and 
Walker  lived  in  my  section;  he  has  done  splendid  work  in  the  pulpit  and  in  science.  I  had 
occasion  a  year  or  two  ago  to  ask  for  a  good  lawyer  in  Springfield,  and  I  was  told  that 
Spellman  was  the  best  lawyer  in  Western  Massachusetts.  The  question  with  me  is  whether 
I  have  done  the  best  I  could,  and  I  think  I  can  truly  say  that  notwithstanding  my  sins  of 

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omission  and  commission  I  have  tried  to  do  the  best  I  could.  We  have  all  of  us  by  this 
time  learned  from  experience  the  truths  of  life.  We  do  not  want  any  authority  to  tell  us  that 
we  are  bound  to  be  true  to  ourselves  without  injuring  others — that  God  does  not  settle  up 
with  us  every  Saturday  night — that  that  man  lives  honestly  who  lives  best.  I  have  not  been 
here  for  some  time,  and  I  am  somewhat  amazed  at  the  changes  here  in  Yale — fifteen  new 
buildings  and  four  millions  in  money  as  a  gift  within  the  last  ten  years.  If  I  remember 
rightly  the  present  graduating  class  numbers  279,  and  changes  equally  great  have  taken  place 
in  the  character  of  the  text  books,  and  especially  in  the  methods  of  instruction.  I  read  not 
long  since  that  Greek  was  no  longer  required  at  Harvard.  I  do  not  know  how  it  is  in  Yale. 
To  think  that  a  man  can  go  through  Yale  and  get  his  degree  without  ever  having  seen  a 
Greek  grammar !  We  all  learned  at  Yale  to  get  superficiality.  I  think  I  learned  that  here 
in  Yale.  It  seems  to  me  that  this  is  the  curse  of  much  of  the  modem  thinking.  Assump 
tion  seems  to  me  to  be  substituted  for  verity.  Verity  is  at  premium.  Revolutions  are  readily 
accepted  on  mere  assumption,  and  on  evidence,  too,  that  logically  makes  our  old  poet  turn 
over  in  his  grave.  There  is  one  statement  which  was  made  by  our  Secretary  that  has  been 
alluded  to  this  evening,  and  that  is  that  the  average  attendance  at  our  class  reunions  is  more 
than  that  of  any  other  class  in  proportion  to  the  number  of  graduates.  That  is  an  astonishing 
statement :  one  reason  is  that  we  have  had  a  better  Secretary  than  any  other  Yale  class. 
(Cries  of  "You  are  right  there.'")  But  is  it  the  class  spirit?  I  can  hardly  think  that  will 
explain  it ;  it  lies  deeper  than  that. 

(Mr.  Sprague  was  interrupted  here  by  the  visit  of  the  Class  of  1877.  who 
came  into  the  room  singing,  "Here's  to  good  old  Yale,  drink  her  down.") 

Mr.  Adee  proposes  "Three  times  three  for  the  Class  of  1877."     (Cheers.) 
A  member  of  the  Class  of  1877  proposes  "Three  times  three  for  1867."    (More 
cheers.) 

By  a  member  of  'tj:  Gentlemen  of  '67,  the  Class  of  '"JJ  has  been  having  so  good  a  time 
that  it  wants  to  find  somebody  who  is  having  a  better.  It  is  looking  for  somebody  who  is 
younger  who  knows  a  good  thing.  When  a  man  gets  to  be  forty-two  he  thinks  he  is  old  until 
he  gets  to  be  fifty.  None  of  us  have  yet  got  to  be  fifty,  as  you  can  see — none  of  you  are  thirty 
or  forty,  as  we  can  see  by  looking  at  you.  We  have  brought  in  this  testimonial,  which  you 
can  see  is  still  cold.  (Holds  up  a  bottle  of  champagne.)  This  is  the  expression  of  our 
cordial  feeling  for  all  Yale  men.  I  take  pleasure  in  passing  this  on  to  the  Chairman,  who,  I 
understand,  sits  at  the  head  of  this  table,  and  may  it  do  you  much  good. 

(Members  of  '"jy.  "Here's  to  '67,  drink  her  down.") 

Mr.  Fl.wders: — Gentlemen  of  the  Class  of  1877  (cries  of  "We  are  here")  :  I  am.  as  the 
representative  of  the  Class  of  '67   and  with  their  full  approbation,  delighted  to  welcome  you 

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f^  OF  THK  ^\ 

:    UNIVERSITY  i 


here  lo-night,  and  to  say  to  you  that  the  keys  to  our  hearts  are  yours,  and  their  chambers  are 
for  you  to  occupy.  The  gentleman  who  acted  as  the  spokesman  for  '"JT,  with  all  the  ability 
which  we  know  that  class  had,  both  in  College  and  since,  seems  to  have  been  remiss  in  his 
attendance  upon  the  lessons  that  were  inculcated  by  the  tutor  or  professor  whom  we  called 
Gibbs,  for  he  seems  not  to  understand  the  first  principles  of  arithmetic,  when  he  thinks  that 
the  Class  of  '"j"]  is  younger  than  '67,  for  I  venture  to  remind  you,  gentlemen  of  '"JT,  that  under 
that  system  of  arithmetic  which  prevailed  when  we  were  in  College,  six  and  seven  made 
thirteen,  and  seven  and  seven  made  fourteen,  and  thirteen  is  younger  than  fourteen.  No. 
gentlemen,  we  are  your  juniors  to-night,  and  as  your  juniors  we  delight  to  honor  you,  and 
to  welcome  you  to  our  hearts  and  to  our  festive  board.     (Cheers.) 

A  member  of  the  Class  of  'yj  proposes  "Three  times  three  for  '67,"  to  which 
'67  responded  by  singing  "Here's  to  'jj,  drink  her  down." 

Mr.  Sprague  (continuing)  : — Now,  the  coming  in  of  this  class  just  illustrates  what  I  am 
about  to  .say,  that  it  was  not  strictly  good  fellowship  or  the  love  of  Alma  Mater  that  is  the 
secret  of  this  bond  between  us.  It  lies  deeper  than  that ;  it  is  the  consciousness  that  we  are 
co-workers  with  the  Almighty  Himself  in  the  development  of  the  human  mind.  Here  is  the 
real  secret  uf  the  good  fellowship  which  exists  here  in  Yale.  I  have  come  a  long  way  to 
attend  this  meeting — some  twelve  hundred  miles — and  I  have  been  richly  repaid  for  coming. 
I  am  going  directly  back  to  my  work  there,  and  this  meeting  will  remain  a  bright  spot  in  my 
mind.  If  I  live  I  shall  be  here  at  the  next  reunion.  I  feel  very  grateful  for 
the  cordial  reception  that  I  have  had  personally,  and  I  close  by  wishing  every  member 
of  the  class  continued  prosperity  and  happiness.     (Cries  of  "Good".) 

Mr.  Flanders  : — Gentlemen,  I  live  in  what  one  of  the  Class  has  been  pleased 
to  call  a  suburb  of  Chicago — some  eighty-five  miles  north  of  it.  Many  things 
have  been  claimed  for  Chicago,  but  I  never  heard  it  said  that  it  was  noted  for  its 
modesty,  but  you  have  heard  to-night,  and  this  morning,  that  the  members  of  the 
Class  of  '67  are  distinguished  for  their  modesty,  and  one  of  our  Class,  as  modest 
as  any  of  the  104  that  graduated,  or  of  the  165  who  at  all  times  were  members  of 
our  Class,  is  a  citizen  of  Chicago,  and  a  citizen  in  the  profession  in  which  Hedge 
and  myself  and  others  have  been  engaged,  and  we  know  that  a  lawyer  in  active 
practice  is  rare  indeed  who  can  follow  the  fortunes  of  his  client  without  incurring 
some  hostility.  One  such  man  there  was  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  President 
Cleveland,  in  the  exercise  of  the  discretion  vested  in  him,  chose  him  to  fill  the  hon- 
orable position  of  Circuit  Judge  of  the  United  States.  John  W.  Showalter,  a  judge, 
a  citizen,  a  lawyer  of  whom  all  lawyers  in  the  City  of  Chicago  speak  well,  and 
whom  they  were  glad  to  see  appointed  to  the  bench — a  judge  whose  adverse  de- 

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cisions  are  accepted  by  lawyers  as  strong,  able  and  persuasive,  will  now  speak  to 
you.  You  will  listen  to  him,  gentlemen,  as  attentively  as  we  of  the  Bar  in  his  cir- 
cuit are  accustomed  to  listen  to  him  when  he  speaks  from  the  bench. 

Hon.  John  W.  Showalter  : — My  dear  Classmates :  I  cannot  think  of  a  blessed  thing  to 
say  in  the  way  of  a  speech  to-night.  I  thought  until  just  before  I  started  to  come  out  here 
that  I  was  not  destined  to  come  out  here  at  this  time.  I  made  up  my  mind  all  at  once 
yesterday  morning  that  I  would  get  on  the  cars  and  come,  so  here  I  am.  So  far  as  my 
experience  goes,  it  has  been  customary  when  a  speech  has  been  requested  of  a  fellow  for  the 
presiding  officer  to  indicate  something  of  the  sort  beforehand.  Now,  Morse  did  not  tell  me 
that  I  was  expected  to  make  a  speech  here,  and  I  had  not  thought  of  anything  to  say.  Of 
course,  it  flashed  through  my  mind  that  I  might  be  called  upon,  and  I  tried  to  think  of 
something,  but  I  became  so  mixed  and  tangled  up  that  I  got  nothing  straight,  and  I  really  do 
not  feel  fit  to  make  any  intelligible  speech  to-night.  I  came  out  here  to  see  the  Class  once 
more  as  a  Class — as  an  organization — and  I  find  that  it  has  stood  the  disintegrating  force  of 
thirty  years  quite  strenuously.  I  judge  that  from  the  statistics  I  have  heard  here  of  our 
reunions,  and'  how  our  meetings  compare  with  other  classes.  I  came  here  to  pay  my 
respects  to  the  Class  of  '67,  for  one  purpose,  and  I  came  to  see  each  of  my  classmates  who 
should  come  here,  face  to  face  again,  and  to  take  him  by  the  hand,  and  I  came,  of  course, 
also  to  see  the  old  university  town.  I  find  that  the  town  has  grown  almost  out  of  my 
recollection.  I  traveled  down  this  street  here  that  runs  between  us  and  the  University  to  see 
if  I  could  find  the  old  place  where  I  roomed,  and  I  declare  that  I  could  not  identify  the  house. 
It  was  somewhere  near  here  towards  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  but  I  do  not  know  where 
now.  Gentlemen,  I  wanted  something  better  to  say,  but  perhaps  I  may  say.  as  well  as  any- 
thing else,  that  I  am  very  glad  indeed  to  see  you  again.  Your  faces  retain  some  of  the  old 
familiarity,  and  as  I  look  around  begin  to  look  again  like  those  of  the  men  that  I  knew  here 
thirty  years  ago.  As  it  has  been  said  by  our  distinguished  President  here,  I  live  in  Chicago. 
I  am  still  a  single  man.  I  have  no  establishment  there  to  invite  anybody  to,  but  I  shall 
always  be  glad  if  any  of  my  classmates  who  come  to  Chicago  will  drop  around  to  see  me  at 
the  Monadnock,  and  we  will  go  out  and  eat  and  drink  and  compare  notes  together.  I  go 
to  Kentucky  sometimes,  down  to  the  dark  and  bloody  ground,  or  Blue  Grass  region,  as  it 
is  sometimes  called,  to  ?ee  my  father  and  mother,  who  are  still  living,  but  I  can  usually  be 
found  in  Chicago,  and  I  shall  always  be  glad  to  see  those  of  the  class  who  come  there.  It 
seems  to  me  that  I  am  not  one  of  those  men  who  have  the  aptitude  to  say  graceful  and 
amusing  things.  Of  course,  as  a  practicing  lawyer  I  can  talk  when  the  subject  is  before 
me.  and  I  can  talk  as  a  member  of  the  Bar  fluently  enough,  but  when  I  am  called  upon  off- 
hand I  seem  to  be  lost,  and  I  must  ask  you,  gentlemen,  to  excuse  me  with  these  few  remarks, 
and  when  I  come  around  here  five  years  from  now,  if  your  President  thinks  it  worth  while, 
and  will  signify  it  to  me,  I  will  endeavor  to  put  some  things  down,  and  talk  as  well  as  I  can. 
(Applause.) 

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Mr.  F'landers  : — In  my  wanderings  last  summer  I  was  at  Niagara  for  a 
few  (lays  and  met  a  former  resident  of  Milwaukee,  now  a  banker  in  the  city  of 
Buffalo,  and  it  soon  came  out  that  we  had  common  friends,  and  I  inquired  with 
reference  to  one  of  our  classmates  in  Buffalo  particularly,  and  he  told  me  that  he 
was  the  President  of  one  of  the  principal  banks,  if  not  the  principal  bank,  and  that 
he  had  in  the  city  of  Buffalo,  as  he  had  in  Yale  College,  a  host  of  friends.  No 
member  of  the  Class  of  '67  will  doubt  that  one  of  whom  I  speak  is  that  royal  gen- 
tleman, Bissell,  who  will  now  speak  to  you. 

Mr.  a.  D.  Bissell  : — Well,  boys,  you  knew  Flanders  when  he  was  in  College,  and  you 
believed  him  to  be  truthful,  and  I  guess  I  did,  too,  but  he  has  made  some  very  inaccurate 
statements  in  speaking  of  me.  He  did  meet  a  friend  of  mine  in  Niagara  Falls,  and  that 
friend  induced  Flanders  to  talk  with  me  over  the  telephone,  so  that  you  can  take  all  that  he 
said  of  me  with  considerable  allowance.  However,  I  was  here  five  years  ago ;  I  told  you 
several  things  about  myself,  and  they  were  disagreeable  enough,  so  I  won't  repeat  them;  but 
I  will  pick  up  the  record  from  that  time.  I  am  thankful  for  several  things,  chief  of  which 
are  that  I  am  not  in  States  Prison  or  in  the  Cemetery,  and  I  am  glad  that  you  are  all  in  the 
same  fix,  for  otherwise  you  would  not  be  here.  I  told  Morse  that  I  would  not  be  here,  for 
there  were  some  sad  things  to  contemplate  after  thirty  years,  but  he  persuaded  me  to  come. 
I  thought  that  we  had  been  traveling  for  thirty  years  since  we  left  College,  and  I  thought 
that  several  of  us  must  be  nearer  heaven  than  we  were,  and  I  thought  that  some  of  us  old 
sinners  would  get  some  benefit  from  our  classmates,  and  con'^equently  I  made  up  my  mind 
to  come  back  here.  I  am  very  glad  to  meet  you  all.  I  have  realized  that  men  seem  great 
when  you  look  at  them  from  a  distance,  but  I  never  before  realized  that  we  had  so  many 
distinguished  men  in  our  Class  as  I  have  realized  to-night.  I  never  really  thought  of  our 
classmates  as  distinguished  men.  I  knew  them  as  boys,  and  thought  they  were  getting  along 
about  as  I  was,  but  I  now  look  at  this  class  in  another  way,  and  I  am  very  glad  to  say  so 
to-night.  T  am  very  happy  to  be  here  to-night,  and  also  to  repeat  what  Flanders  has  .said, 
that  I  live  in  the  city  of  Buffalo.  Buffalo  is  the  crossroads  of  the  United  States :  everything 
goes  through  our  town.  Now,  I  do  not  want  any  man  to  go  through  Buffalo  without  hunting 
me  up,  and  I  will  do  all  I  can  to  entertain  him.  A  classmate,  Eddy,  called  to  see  me;  he  is 
not  here  to-night.  He  is  a  very  prosperous  man,  and  later  his  son  visited  me.  I  enjoyed 
both  their  visits  very  much.  Eddy  is  a  professor  in  the  University  of  Minnesota,  and  is  a 
man  whom  I  am  proud  to  know.  I  hope  to  see  you  all  thirty  years  from  now.  I  have 
enjoyed  this  visit  very  much,  and  am  glad  to  meet  you. 

Mr.  Fl.anders: — No  one  would  accord  higher  praise  to  the  clergy  than  my- 
self, of  which  profession  we  have  so  many  distinguished  members  here,  and  cer- 
tainly in  that  profession  which  I  follow  I  have  great  pride ;  but  I  would  say  with- 

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out  fear  of  contradiction  that  no  profession  comes  so  near  to  the  hearts  of  the  peo- 
ple as  the  medical  profession.  Mine  concerns  the  rights  of  Hfe,  hberty  or  prop- 
erty ;  the  mission  of  the  clerical  profession  is  to  instruct  and  to  console,  but  when 
the  wife,  or  the  daughter,  or  the  mother  is  afflicted  in  such  manner  that  the  peril 
of  death  hangs  over  her,  then  the  heart  of  the  man  who  is  the  husband,  father,  or 
son  is  wrung  with  grief,  then  he  appeals  to  that  other  profession  to  save  the  life  of 
her  who  is  dearest  to  him.  Of  that  profession,  as  has  been  said  to-night,  one  of  the 
most  distinguished  members  is  a  classmate  of  ours.  If  I  were  speaking  in  the 
presence  of  strangers  I  should  speak  of  him  as  Dr.  Mann,  but  in  the  presence  of 
his  classmates  I  address  him  as  Darby  Mann,  and  ask  him  to  speak  to  us. 

Dr.  Mann  : — Mr.  Chairman  and  Classmates,  I  was  never  very  strong  at  an  after-dinner 
speech — that  was  part  of  my  makeup  that  was  rather  left  out ;  to  get  up  and  talk  on  an  occasion 
like  this  was  never  very  easy  for  me.  I  think  what  has  been  said  this  evening  about  the  old 
friendships  that  we  make  in  Yale  is  very  true.  I  know  that  I  have  not  quite  the  same 
feelings  for  other  friends  as  I  have  for  the  friends  that  I  made  in  1867.  There  is  something 
which  makes  them  dearer  and  nearer  than  any  other  friends  which  we  make  m  after  life. 
T  think  that  sentiment  has  been  spoken  of  several  times  this  evening,  and  it  is  that  which 
makes  these  reunions  .so  exceedingly  pleasant.  When  I  met  some  of  the  men  this  morning 
I  could  not  quite  recognize  them,  but  as  I  look  upon  them  now  their  faces  seem  perfectly  famil- 
iar. I  do  not  know  whether  it  is  memory  or  seeing  you  for  a  little  longer  time,  but  I  think  every 
man  here  is  as  familiar  as  thirty  years  ago,  only  a  little  older.  I  am  very  grateful  for  the 
kind  words  that  have  been  said  by  some  of  the  speakers  about  what  has  been  done  by  me 
in  the  world.  I  have  managed  to  get  along  pretty  well  in  my  profession,  and  I  have 
attributed  my  success  almost  entirely  to  what  I  learned  here  in  Yale.  Success  can  only  be 
achieved  by  hard  work,  and  I  think  I  worked  harder  than  most  of  you.  I  came  to  College 
pretty  badly  prepared,  and  I  had  to  work  very  hard.  It  was  only  by  hard  work  that  I  man- 
aged to  keep  up,  and  I  was  kept  on  the  ragged  edge  for  some  time,  and  I  think  it  is  from 
that  lesson  that  I  learned  that  success  can  only  come  from  hard  work,  and  when  I  got  into  the 
medical  profession  I  found  it  was  very  true  there,  and  I  have  followed  out  that  line  ever 
since,  for  I  do  not  know  of  anything  that  demands  harder  work  than  the  practice  of  medicine. 
You  must  read  in  order  to  keep  up  with  this  profession,  and  also  do  a  lot  of  writing,  so  that 
hard  work  has  been  the  key  to  the  success  which  has  come  to  me  so  far  as  it  has.  Now,  I  am 
not  going  to  say  very  much,  but  there  is  one  thought  that  I  have  had  in  my  mind  for  a  long 
time,  and  that  is.  that  we  as  alumni  should  use  our  influence  with  the  authorities  of  Yale 
to  preserve  some  of  the  old  landmarks,  which  I  hear  are  about  to  be  destroyed.  It  seems 
to  me  that  one  of  the  old  brick  row,  old  South  College,  should  be  left  (applause),  and 
should  be  left  for  very  strong  reasons.  I  believe  that  in  this  country  we  are  altogether  in 
too  much  of  a  hurry.     We  want  to  accomplish  results  immediately.     We  are  not  willing  to 

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see  a  thing  grow  and  become  something  great  in  time.  Now,  we  have  here  in  the  old  brick 
row  something  to  remind  us  of  the  fact  that  great  things  spring  from  small  beginnings. 
Yale  College  thirty  years  ago  was  a  very  small  affair.  I  was  very  much  struck  by  the  old 
buildings  at  Cambridge  and  Oxford  in  England,  and  how  long  it  took  them  to  build  it  all 
up.  It  has  not  all  been  built  up  in  a  few  years,  and  we,  who  have  accomplished  wonders  in  a 
short  time,  should  have  more  patience.  I  believe  that  if  we  were  not  in  quite  such  a  hurry 
to  do  it  all  at  once  that  we  would  accomplish  more  in  the  end.  I  believe  that  the  old  brick 
row  would  be  a  lesson  to  the  fellows  in  this  College  of  what  great  things  come  from  small 
beginnings,  and  they  should  be  kept  as  a  memento  of  old  Yale.  I  hope  most  sincerely  that 
the  Class  will  use  their  influence  that  some  at  least  of  the  old  brick  row  should  be  left  as  an 
object  lesson  for  future  generations.  I  do  not  know  that  I  have  anything  more  to  say,  I 
was  not  present  at  the  last  meeting  five  years  ago,  because  I  was  abroad  for  my  health  at  the 
time.  I  worked  rather  harder  than  my  strength  would  bear,  and  so  I  had  not  the  pleasure 
of  being  with  you.  I  assure  you  that  it  has  been  a  great  pleasure  to  be  with  you  this  evening. 
We  miss  some  who  are  not  here,  we  miss  them  very  sadly,  but  perhaps  it  is  best  to  bring  out 
nothing  but  pleasant  thoughts,  and  so  I  will  not  refer  to  them. 

Mr.  Flanders: — There  is  a  game  which  I  do  not  understand,  but  which  I 
am  informed  Tom  Hedge  knows  somethng  about,  in  which  two  of  a  kind  are  said 
to  be  an  advantage.  We  have  to-night  two  of  a  kind — three  of  a  kind — one  has 
just  spoken,  and  we  will  now  hear  from  Dr.  Robert  Alison,  Bob  Alison  we  used 
to  call  him. 

Dr.  Alison  : — Mr.  Chairman,  I  was  hoping  that  you  would  be  kind  enough  to  excuse 
me  to-night.  I  do  not  feel  that  I  can  do  justice  to  myself.  I  recently  met  with  an  accident 
that  hurt  me  a  good  deal.  You  have  been  very  kind  to  ask  me  to  speak.  I  do  not  feel  that 
I  am  one  of  those  who  have  carved  a  large  niche  in  which  to  put  my  bust,  or  any  part  of  me, 
so  far  as  fame  is  concerned.  It  has  only  been  a  little  scratch  in  the  wall,  if  it  is  even  that; 
but  what  I  have  done  I  have  worked  very  hard  to  do.  The  fact  is  that  it  is  only  some  ten  or 
twi'lve  years  ago.  or  a  little  more,  that  I  looked  upon  life  as  a  serious  matter.  Before  that  it 
was  somewhat  of  a  holiday;  I  had  more  fun  than  anything  else.  I  had  a  great  deal  of  it, 
arid  all  the  time,  and  finally  one  day  it  occurred  to  me  that  it  would  possibly  be  better  if  I 
.set  to  work,  and  I  set  to  work,  and  since  then  I  have  been  working  pretty  steadily  in  a  very 
plain  and  in  a  very  quiet  sort  of  a  way.  I  have  made  no  con-oicuous  success,  and  cannot  be 
said  to  be  known  outside  of  the  little  district  in  which  I  settled,  but  I  think  there  they  know 
me  pretty  well.  When  I  was  in  College  I  did  my  work  in  a  haphazard  sort  of  a  way;  oc- 
casionally I  just  got  a  lesson,  quite  often  I  did  not;  but  since  this  leaf  was  turned  over,  some 
ten  years  ago,  I  have  had  to  work  pretty  hard,  but  I  was  in  earnest,  and  I  dare  say  that  my 
training  in  college,  or  my  acceptance  of  the  training  that  I  ought  to  have  had,  did  very  much 

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to  help  me  to  make  up  my  mind  to  do  this  thing — to  get  to  work  at  last — and  for  len  years  I 
have  worked  very  hard ;  the  measure  of  my  success  has  not  been  very  great,  but  still  I  am  con- 
tent. I  used  to  hesitate  about  coming  on  here  to  meet  the  class,  and  to  meet  you  men,  be- 
cause I  thought  that  my  career  in  College  had  been  rather  erratic.  After  all,  it  took  rather 
a  long  while  to  stop  those  childish  things.  It  is  very  hard  to  turn  over  a  leaf  of  that  sort 
and  keep  it  turned  over ;  sometimes  a  little  breath  of  air  will  turn  that  leaf  back  again,  and 
then  one  does  foolish  things  that  we  regret.  It  is  impossible  that  we  should  all  get  to  the 
lop  of  the  ladder.  The  ladder  is  a  long  one,  and  there  may  be  many  fellows  climbing  the 
same  ladder  who  will  keep  you  down  if  they  can.  I  have  not  anything  particular  to  say 
to-night.  I  do  not  like  to  say  anything  that  would  disagree  with  my  classmate  who  has  just 
preceded  me,  who  has  become  a  very  distinguished  man  in  my  profession,  but  I  would  like 
to  say  something  in  regard  to  the  old  buildings  which  are  now  occupying  the  campus  here. 
In  a  little  while  we  shall  have  gone  off  the  stage,  and  other  men  will  occupy  the  place  which 
we  now  occupy,  and  their  associations  will  be  around  the  buildings  which  are  now  on  the 
campus.  T  think  it  would  be  very  much  better  for  us  to  accept  our  fate.  Let  the  old  build- 
ings go,  and  when  the  new  classes  come  in  they  will  have  these  new  buildings,  and  in  a 
little  while  their  associations  will  be  with  the  new  buildings.  The  old  South 
College  never  was  a  sanitary  building  in  any  aspect.  How  in  the  world  men  lived  in 
that  building  and  retained  their  health  I  cannot  see  now.  It  would  be  very  much  better  to 
clean  the  campus  off  of  all  those  things  and  let  us  have  new  buildings.  I  think  that  a  question 
of  health  is  far  better  than  a  question  of  sentiment.  You  have  been  very  kind  in  calling  on 
me,  Mr.  Chairman.  I  shall  be  delighted  to  come  again,  and  the  more  men  I  meet  the  happier  it 
is  for  me.  It  is  delightful  for  me  to  recall  old  names,  old  faces,  old  sports,  and  I  look  back  on 
everything  with  plea'^ure.  Some  of  you  men  might  think  that  if  you  were  to  go  over 
your  college  course  again  you  would  study  harder,  but  I  think  I  would  like  to  go  over  those 
years  again  very  much  if  it  were  not  for  those  bea.stly  studies.  Well,  I  do  not  know  that  I 
want  to  add  anything.       (Applause.) 

Mr.  Adee  sang  "Lauriger." 

Mr.  Fl.\xders  : — Frank  Hathorn  is  one  of  the  men  who,  like  myself,  comes 
back  to-night  for  the  first  time  since  graduation.  His  welcome  is  none  the  less 
warm,  and  we  would  like  to  hear  from  him. 

F.  H.  H.\TH0RN : — I  did  not  expect  to  be  called  upon  to  make  a  speech.  I  am  very  happy 
lo  be  here,  but  I  am  very  sorry  that  I  have  been  away  every  five  years  since  we  left  here.  I 
remember  one  remark  that  Flanders  made  when  he  introducd  Tom  Hedge :  He  said  that 
whoever  is  not  acquainted  with  Tom  Hedge  is  himself  unknown,  and  I  have  been  apologiz- 
ing to  Tom  this  evening  that  yesterday  I  did  not  recognize  him  when  I  first  rnet  him.     He 

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came  up  to  me  and  shook  hands  and  said,  "Do  you  know  me?"  but  I  failed  to  recognize  him. 
"Well,"  he  said,  "I  did  not  have  the  highest  standing  in  my  class,  and  that  is  Tom  Hedge." 
Well,  all  I  can  say  to  you  all,  and  I  truly  can  say  it,  is  that  I  am  glad  to  be  here,  and  I  am 
cnjdying  myself  so  much  that  I  am  sorry  I  have  not  been  here  before,  and  it  occurred  to  me, 
when  you  said  we  were  not  going  to  meet  here  until  five  3'ears  from  now,  whether  it  was  such 
a  wise  plan,  as  we  are  all  getting  older,  and  whether  it  would  not  be  better  to  make  it  a  little 
shorter.  I  will  be  here  at  the  next  meeting  if  I  can  come,  and  renew  the  old  spirit,  see  the 
old  faces,  and  feel,  as  it  has  been  said  several  times  this  evening,  that  there  are  no  inend- 
ships  quite  so  dear  as  those  that  were  made  at  Yale. 


Mr.  Flanders  : — We  all  remember  that  Roscoe  Conkling  was  not  particu- 
larly friendly  to  President  Hayes,  and  he  said,  with  reference  to  him,  that  "some 
men  achieve  greatness,  some  are  born  great,  and  some  are  born  in  the  State  of 
Ohio."  T  am  not  sure  whether  Frank  Baldwin  was  born  in  the  State  of  Ohio,  but 
he  represents  it  here  to-night,  and  he  represents  it  well.  We  will  hear  from  him 
now. 

Mr.  Baldwin  : — Mr.  Chairman  and  Brothers,  I  am  very  greatly  obliged  for  what  the 
chairman  has  said,  all  of  which  is  wholly  undeserved,  except  the  fact  that  I  was  born  in  the 
State  of  Ohio.  I  am  proud  of  having  been  born  there,  and  proud  to  have  always  lived  there, 
except  for  the  short  time  that  I  was  here  at  Yale.  Much  that  has  been  said  here  to-night 
might  be  crystallized  into  a  subject,  and  called  "The  Invisible  Force  at  Yale  College."  It 
always  seems  strange — that  influence  which  Yale  has  upon  her  sons.  Every  man  who  comes 
to  Yale  is  of  the  family  of  Yale,  and  nothing  can  give  a  Yale  man  more  pleasure  than  to  come 
to  these  reunions;  and  the  strange  thing  is  that  persons  can  have  had  connections  or  associa- 
tions with  other  colleges,  and  then  come  to  Yale,  and,  forsaking  those  associations,  cleave 
so  strongly  to  Yale  and  its  associations.  An  uncle  of  mine  is  a  graduate  of  Harvard,  but  his 
son  is  one  of  the  liveliest  members  of  Yale's  Fre  hman  Class  to-day.  I  have  a  friend  born  and 
brought  up  under  the  shadow  of  Harvard,  but  to-day  in  everything  that  concerns  the  two 
colleges  he  is  a  shouter  for  Yale.  I  entered  college  at  the  beginning  of  the  junior  year  and 
graduated.  It  took  me  some  time  to  recover  from  the  labor  of  carrying  myself  through  here 
and  never  going  away.  I  missed  the  triennial  and  sexennial  reunions,  but  since  then  I  have 
attended  every  class  gathering.  I  am  so  impressed  with  the  force — this  hidden,  silent  force  of 
Yale  College — that  I  cannot  understand,  though  I  do  not  intend  to  throw  stones  at  those 
whom  misfortune  or  accident  or  disability  of  some  kind  has  kept  from  this  and  other  meet- 
ings— I  can't  understand  why  persons  who  live  near  do  not  find  one  of  the  pleasures  of  their 
lives  in  attending  these  meetings.  Some  of  us  come  thousands  of  miles,  and  it  seems  to  me 
incomprehensible  that  some  who  are  so  shoTt  a  distance  away  are  not  here.  It  is  a  duty,  be- 
sides being  a  pleasure,  for  me  to  come  here ;  and  it  would  be  so  pleasant  to  see  everybody  here, 

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to  shake  them  by  the  hand,  and  my  only  regret  is  that  we  are  not  all  present.  I  personally 
regret  very  much  the  absence  of  Brooks  and  Harper,  and  of  Wilson  and  Porter,  of  Wetmore, 
too,  whom  public  duties  keep  in  his  place  at  Washington.  All  these  I  regret  very  much  at  not 
meeting,  and  I  hope  very  much  that  when  the  next  reunions  come  all  the  absentees  will  be 
here  together. 


Mr.  Flanders  : — One  of  the  members  of  our  profession  representing  the  im- 
portant State  of  New  "York,  not  a  resident  of  the  City  of  New  York,  but  of  a 
smaller  city  within  that  State,  is  here  to-night.  I  have  in  mind  Fred  Small,  whom 
we  all  want  to  hear. 

Mr.  F.  I.  Small: — Mr.  Chairman  and  Classmates,  it  is  with  great  pleasure  that  I  meet 
you,  whose  faces,  though  somewhat  changed  by  time,  bring  back  to  me  memories  of  the  days 
when  we  were  all  boys  together  and  our  careers  were  of  the  future;  and  assembled  here,  as  we 
are,  after  thirty  years'  contact  with  the  world,  and  after  those  careers  have  been  perhaps 
shaped.  I  know  of  no  better  greeting  that  I  can  extend  to  you  than  the  words  that  whatever 
may  have  been  the  hardships  and  the  vicissitudes  through  which  we  have  passed,  we  can  all 
to-night  look  back  upon  the  past  with  feelings  of  satisfaction.  We  have  all  built  our  castles. 
We  have  all  formed  plans  which  did  not  materialize.  We  have  all  had  hopes  which  we  did 
not  realize,  but  we  have  lived  long  enough  to  know  that  many  of  the  things  which  at  one 
time  were  so  unpleasant  and  so  annoying,  and  which  caused  our  castles  to  fall  and  our  plans 
to  fail,  were  blessings  in  disguise.  We  have  lived  long  enough  to  know  that  many  of  the 
things  that  came  to  us  as  disasters,  in  after  years  seem  not  so  bad  after  all.  In  a  word,  we 
have  lived  long  enough  to  learn  that,  being  creatures  of  circumstances,  he  who  receives  the 
lot  which  the  fates  give  to  him  is  apt  to  find  greater  happiness  in  life  than  the  man  who  is  by 
the  outside  world  counted  more  successful,  and  hence  my  greeting  to  you.  In  coming  back 
to  New  Haven  and  meeting  you  all  I  miss  many  faces  that  were  once  familiar  to  us  all.  I 
remember  that  there  were  four  men  at  one  time  very  closely  associated  with  our  class,  and 
who  were  not  members  of  us,  for  they  were  scientifics.  They  were  such  splendid  fellows  that 
their  class  did  not  hold  them,  and,  knowing  a  good  thing  when  they  saw  it,  they  gathered 
to  the  Class  of  '67.  In  the  first  place,  there  was  Jim  Wadsworth,  one  of  the  j oiliest  and  best 
of  fellows,  of  whose  career  as  a  politician  in  the  State  of  New  York  you  have  perhaps  all 
heard.  He  has  been  several  times  mentioned  in  the  conventions  of  his  party  as  Governor  of 
the  State,  and  if  he  reaches  that  excellent  position,  and  I  think  he  will,  his  friends  in  the 
Class  of  1867  will  rejoice  with  him.  Then  there  was  Alexander  Palmer,  wTio,  I  am  in- 
formed, died  several  years  ago,  a  great,  big,  strong  man  of  splendid  physique,  always  quiet, 
reserved  and  unassuming.  He  talked  little  with  his  tongue,  and  yet  he  had  a  pair  of  dark 
brown  eyes  that  were  always  talking,  and  that  were  always  saying  such  nice  winsome  things 
that  those  that  came  within  their  influence  stayed  there,  for  they  felt  that  they  had  one  good 

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steadfast  friend  in  Allie  Palmer.  Then  there  was  Jack  Strothers  and  Doc  Fleming,  of 
whom  I  have  not  heard  since  I  parted  with  them  so  many  years  ago;  and  I  think  it  was 
"Doc"  Fleming  who  gave  Bissell  here  the  opportunity  for  making  the  first  pun  that  was  ever 
perpetrated  by  the  Class  of  1867.  The  Class  was  at  dinner,  and.  as  usual,  witty  questions 
were  being  asked,  and  some  one  inquired  how  to  concoct  a  Yale  punch,  and  Bissell  volunteered 
an  answer.  He  was  quite  correct  in  every  respect  except  that  he  forgot  to  mention  ice,  and 
"Doc"  Fleming  inquired,  "How  do  you  cool  it,  Bissell?"  Well,  Bissell  thought  a  minute  and 
then  said,  "Well,  after  you  have  got  it  mixed  you  put  it  on  the  table,  and  I  come  along  and 
drink  it  up,  and  you  think  it  very  cool."  In  the  words  of  our  classmate  in  those  days  it  was 
considered  a  good  joke.  There  are  a  great  many  others  who  are  not  here  to-night,  some  of 
whom  have  gone  to  the  world  beyond,  and  there  is  no  one  whom  I  remember  with  more  regret 
than  Sheldon  Reynolds.  When  I  came  to  New  Haven  he  was  one  of  the  first  acquaintances 
fhat  I  made  when  I  came  to  the  Class,  and  from  the  first  I  considered  him  one  of  the  best,  if 
not  the  best  friend  that  I  had  in  the  Class,  and  from  that  time  until  I  heard  of  his  death  there 
were  few  things  that  I  looked  forward  to  with  anticipations  of  more  pleasure  than  the  occasion 
which  should  bring  him  and  me  together  again.  He  was  always  sincerely  generous  and  sympa- 
thetic to  everybody,  high  and  low,  and  he  was  always  in  good  temper.  He  was  one  who  inspired 
in  everyone  whom  he  met  feelings  of  respect  and  love,  and  I  did  respect  and  love  him  as  I  do 
now  his  memory.  My  friends,  while  those  who  are  absentees  to-night  we  miss  and  would 
gladly  have  with  us,  I  sincerely  hope  that  we  may  all  be  spared  to  come  again  together  to  ex- 
change friendships  under  the  old  elms,  not  merely  for  five  years  more,  but  for  many  quiri- 
tennials  yet  to  come.     (Applause.) 


Mr.  Davenport: — Mr.  Chairman,  the  pleasurable  relations  which  have  in  the 
past  existed  between  'yj  and  '67,  which  they  have  renewed  to-night,  lead  me  to- 
express,  I  am  sure,  the  wish  of  every  member  of  this  class,  that  we  may  show 
to  them,  as  they  have  shown  to  us,  that  the  tie  that  binds  us  to  the  University  is 
as  strong  with  us  as  it  is  with  them,  and  I  move  that  you  select  a  gentleman  of  the 
Class  to  express  our  feelings  to  them,  and  that  we  go  with  him  to  emphasize  our 
friendship  for  'yj. 

Seconded  by  Mr.  Morse. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — Gentlemen,  you  heard  the  motion ;  those  in  favor  say 
"Aye" ;  those  opposed,  contrary  sound.     Carried  unanimously. 

Mr.  Flanders  appointed  Rev.  Mr.  Burrell  to  speak  to  'jj. 

Mr.  Burrell  refused  and  nominated  Davenport. 

Mr.  Morse: — At  the  last  meeting  Davenport  replied.  I  think  Dave  ought 
to  do  it  this  time. 

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Mr.  Flanders  : — Mr.  Burrell's  appointment  stands. 

Air.  Burrell  is  handed  a  bottle  of  champagne,  and  the  Class  follow  him  up- 
stairs to  '77's  room,  where  he  addresses  them  as  follows: 

Mr.  Burrell  : — I  have  brought  with  me  the  greeting  of  '67  to  the  Class  of  '"j"].  With 
this  greeting  I  have  brought  this  mysterious  thing  (holds  up  a  bottle  of  champagne),  which 
1  call  you  to  witness  I  do  not  recognize  in  any  way.  As  a  clergyman  and  as  a  member  of 
the  National  Temperance  Association,  I  feel  obliged  to  say  that  I  do  not  know  what  this 
thing  is.  I  had  an  assistant  once  who  felt  very  ill,  so  I  laid  him  on  the  sofa  and  left  him  with 
the  sexton.  He  was  unconscious  at  the  time.  He  was  President  of  a  Prohibition  Society. 
A  physician  administered  some  brandy  with  a  spoon,  and  after  awhile  he  regained  conscious- 
ness. He  looked  at  me  and  said:  "Doctor,  I  call  you  to  witness  that  I  do  not  know  (hic^ 
what  this  man  is  giving  me  (hie)."  I  beg  leave,  sir,  to  present  this  bottle  of  castor  oil  to  you 
with  the  compliments  of  '67.  We  have  not  as  big  a  bottle  or  as  fine  a  ribbon,  but  we  bring 
with  us  just  as  much  heart  as  you  brought  us,  and  the  Yale  spirit  is  still  thumping  hard 
against  our  ribs.  We  have  had  some  difficulty  in  recognizing  each  other  as  one  by  one  we 
have  come  to  town,  but  to-night  the  old  boy  faces  of  thirty  years  ago  have  come  back  to  us. 
An  artist  of  New  York,  a  great  many  years  ago,  called  on  Rosa  Bonheur,  and  they  traveled 
and  painted  together.  They  came  to  a  beautiful  landscape  in  Scotland  where  cattle  were 
crossing  a  brook.  Years  passed  by  and  the  two  artists  separated.  A  year  or  two  ago  they 
met  again  in  Paris,  and  the  New  York  artist  saw  in  Rosa  Bonheur"s  study  a  picture  of  a 
Scotch  landscape,  and  he  thought  he  recognized  it.  She  told  him  it  was  a  picture  of  the 
cattle  and  brook  in  Scotland  which  they  had  seen  so  many  years  ago.  She  told  him  she  had 
not  sketched  it,  but  had  carried  it  with  her  in  her  head  ever  since  that  day.  To-night  it 
seems  to  me  that  the  blessed  landscape  of  Yale  has  been  kept  in  our  heads  ever  since,  and 
as  one  after  another  has  said  to-night,  it  is  nothing  but  the  old  boys  that  we  see  in  our 
reunion.     God  bless  you.  gentlemen  of  'tj.     I  present  this  bottle  with  our  best  compliments. 

'yj  sing  "Here's  to  '67,  drink  her  down." 
Davenport  proposes  nine  cheers  for  'jy,  which  are  given. 
The  President  of  'yj  called  upon  his  classmate,  Mr.  Barnum,  to  express  the 
feeling  of  his  Class. 

Mr.  Barnum  :— Well,  gentlemen  of  '67,  the  Class  of  'tj  was  never  prolific  in  orators; 
we  haven't  any.  Every  man  here  has  spoken  except  myself;  they  postponed  calling  upon 
me  until  the  last,  hoping  that  they  might  not  have  to  listen  to  me.  We  accept  this  "drug," 
which  Dr.  Burrell  has  so  solicitously  presented,  with  some  doubt  in  our  minds  whether  or 
not  he  has  not  this  evening  departed  from  his  custom  of  limiting  himself  strictly  to  castor 
oil  and  soothing  syrup,  as  it  does  not  seem  possible  to  us  that  anyone  under  such  laxative 

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inspiration  can  so  delightfully  bring  us  in  union  with  you.  If  he  has  not  been  absorbing 
some  spirit  which  goes  into  a  bottle,  I  am  sure  that  he  has  imbibed  enough  of  the  old  Yale 
spirit  to  thoroughly  release  his  tongue,  if  that  were  necessary,  for  those  of  us  who  know  him 
know  that  it  is  always  ready,  spirit  or  no  spirit.  We  are  always  close  in  our  hearts  to  the 
Class  of  1867.  We  remember  five  years  ago  that  we  said  as  long  as  our  reunions  lasted  we 
would  as  far  as  possible  unite  in  celebrating  old  Yale.  You  spoke  a  little  while  ago  of  the 
place  that  we  hold  in  your  hearts,  and  presented  us  with  the  keys  to  your  hearts.  Some  of 
you  have  been  in  our  hearts  for  many  years,  one  in  particular,  who  stands  for  all  that  is  best, 
not  only  in  Yale  sports,  but  best,  we  know,  in  Yale  men.  Those  of  the  Class  of  ''J^  who  have 
been  brought  in  contact  with  him,  and  who  have  learned  to  know  him,  appreciate  and  love 
him,  and  if  you  had  no  other  claim  upon  us  than  the  one  claim  of  having  developed  in  Yale 
George  Adee— (cheers) — we  would  love  you  all  for  what  you  have  done.  Our  hearts  go  out 
to  you,  and  we  pledge  you  that  five  years  hence  those  of  us  who  are  here  and  are  alive  will 
meet  you  again. 

Three  cheers  are  given  for  '67  and  three  cheers  for  George  Adee. 

Mr.  Adee  : — Gentlemen,  I  wish  only  to  say  that  I  am  very  grateful  for  the  sentiments 
which  you  have  expressed,  although  I  am  entirely  unworthy  of  any  such  exalted  opinion 
on  your  part,  and  if  I  have  been  of  any  service  to  you  or  to  Yale  you  are  freely  welcome  to  it. 

The  Class  of  'jy  then  gave  "Three  times  three  for  '67." 
The  Class  of  '67  then  march  to  the  room  below. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — Gentlemen,  the  refined  and  cultured  nature  of  William  H. 
Goodyear  while  we  were  in  College  has  characterized  him  in  the  life  which  he  has 
led  since  he  left  Yale,  and  he  has  made  as  distinct  a  place  for  himself  in  art  as  any 
man  in  the  Class  has  made  in  any  profession  or  in  any  business.  The  great  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago,  with  the  disposition  to  absorb  all  that  is  best  in  the  United 
States,  has  called  him  to  its  service,  and  he  is  connected  with  the  Art  Institute  in 
Brooklyn,  and  is  one  of  the  University  Extension  lecturers.  He  has  done  as 
much,  if  not  more,  than  anyone  in  the  United  States  to  raise  the  standard  of  art  in 
the  localities  in  which  he  has  spoken,  and  we  shall  deem  it  an  honor  and  a  pleasure 
to  listen  to  him  to-night. 

Mr.  Goodyear  : — I  thank  you  for  your  very  kind  expression.  One  thing  has  struck  me 
in  listening  to  your  speeches  to-night.  I  have  no  doubt  that  you  will  all  agree  with  me  in 
feeling  that  Yale  owes  a  great  deal  to  the  beauty  of  the  town  in  which  she  is,  and  we  ought 
not  to  forget  New  Haven  in  remembering  other  things.     Those  of  you  who  have  traveled 

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furthest  will  bear  me  witness  that  there  is  no  town  in  either  hemisphere  which  possesses  its 
peculiar  charm  and  beauty.  There  certainly  is  no  town  in  the  world  quite  so  beautiful  as 
the  town  in  which  we  are,  and  I  think  we  should  consider  that  and  pay  tribute  to  it,  and  the 
beauty  of  the  place  comes  back  to  me,  and  I  feel  it  as  I  always  did.  I  have  always  said  it 
is  the  most  beautiful  town  in  the  world,  and  I  say  it  now,  and  I  am  sure  jou  will  all  agree 
with  me.  One  point  was  brought  up  to-night  in  which  we  have  found  a  difference  of 
opinion.  I  will  say,  however,  that  my  sympathies  are  very  much  with  Dr.  Mann  in  what 
he  has  said  about  the  preservation  of  one  of  the  old  college  buildings,  and  not  so  much  on 
the  ground  of  sentiment  or  association.  No  doubt,  as  Dr.  Alison  has  said,  the  buildings 
which  are  now  existing  will  have  as  fond  associations  in  a  few  years,  and  may  have 
them  already.  I  think  we  should  recognize  the  fact,  however,  that  there  has  been  no  very 
distinct  advance  in  the  art  atmosphere  over  the  old  buildings  which  they  will  replace.  The 
old  buildings  arc  extremely  good  art ;  they  are  good  color  and  unpretentious,  and  I  think 
from  the  standpoint  of  artistic  beauty  that  we  should  be  glad  to  have  one  of  the  old  buildings 
preserved,  and  from  the  standpoint  of  historical  association  and  the  history  of  the  University 
it  scenes  to  be  very  desirable.  I  am  not  at  all  clear  as  to  the  addition  to  the  appearance  of  the 
campus  from  the  new  buildings.  My  opinion  is  that  the  old  buildings  added  more  to  the 
ensemble  than  the  new  buildings.  I  have  to  say  about  my  studies  that  they  have  related  very 
close  to  university  life.  Although  I  have  been  quoted  as  a  student  in  art  I  should  like  to 
correct  you  by  saying  that  I  am  also  a  student  of  general  history.  It  is  a  study  which  has 
grown  very  rapidly  in  this  country  during  the  past  twenty-five  years.  I  think  it  would  be 
well  that  the  sentiment  of  the  class  should  make  itself  felt  to  some  extent  with  regard  to  the 
position  held  by  certain  members  of  it,  and  I  am  thinking  now  of  Mr.  Eddy,  mentioned  by 
Mr.  Bissell — a  gentleman  who  has  a  world  famous  standing  in  mathematics  which  has  not 
been  recognized  by  this  university.  I  think  it  would  be  well  if,  in  a  friendly  way,  the  in- 
fluence of  the  class  be  brought  to  bear  on  the  degrees  which  are  handed  out  to  various  gentle- 
men, that  Mr.  Eddy  and  more  of  you  here  should  not  be  forgotten.  Nothing  has  been  said 
about  the  reputation  of  the  class  in  music.  You  all  know  the  genius  of  Dr.  Goodman  in  that 
matter.  You  may  not  know  that  a  song  which  is  being  sung  in  a  room  below  us  was  com- 
posed by  Dr.  Goodman,  and  that  this  song  is  becoming  popular  in  Yale  College.  I  am  sorry 
(hat  Mr.  Elliot  is  not  here  to-night.  We  ought  not  to  forget  music.  More  than  that.  I  ought 
not  to  omit  that  among  the  men  here  no  one  is  of  greater  utility  than  Mr.  Morse.  It  is  be- 
coming in  me,  perhaps,  to  say  how  much  I  value  the  work  which  he  has  done;  we  have  al- 
ready expressed  that  as  a  whole,  but  I  want  to  express  myself  individually  to  him  and  to  Mr. 
Adee.  and  Mr.  Davenport,  who  has  given  us  such  a  good  dinner.  I  thank  you  very  much 
for  your  attention. 

Mr.  Fl.vxders  : — The  City  of  Philadelphia  has  heen  for  a  great  many  years 
one  of  the  provinces  from  which  Yale  has  drawn  a  large  number  of  its  students. 
In  that  city  we  have  a  classmate  of  whom  we  have  read ;  those  of  us  who  are  fa- 

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miliar  with  the  "Alumni  Weekly"  have  known  that  he  has  been  successively  the 
Vice-President  and  lately  the  President  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Phila- 
delphia.   1  refer  to  our  classmate  Ingham. 

Mr.  Ingham  : — Mr.  President,  your  expressions  are  exceedingly  kind,  but  I  think  at 
this  late  hour  somewhat  unnecessary.  I  have  listened  to  speeches  which  have  been  made  in 
which  there  has  been  more  or  less  similarity,  in  that  they  have  all  tended  to  show  the  suc- 
cess with  which  you  have  met  the  labors  of  life,  a  good  deal  like  a  clergyman — one  of  our 
colored  brethren — who  upon  one  occasion  was  addressing  his  congregation,  and  he  took  for 
his  text  the  prophet  Jonah.  He  described  the  life  at  Nineveh,  and  said  that  the  citizeni-  had 
soured  very  much  upon  the  prophet  and  wanted  to  get  him  out  of  town,  and  they  put  him 
upon  a  ship,  and  after  he  had  been  on  the  ship  a  little  while  a  great  storm  arose,  and  they 
thought  it  was  better  to  pitch  somebody  overboard  as  a  sacrifice,  and  they  pitched  over 
Jonah,  and  immediately  a  great  fish  arose  and  swallowed  Jonah.  "Now,  brethren,  was  that 
a  shark?  No,  not  a  shark.  Was  it  a  porgie?  No,  not  a  porgie."  A  woman  in  the  back 
part  of  the  audience,  thinking  he  wanted  some  assistance,  said:  "Oh,  no;  a  whale."  "Damn 
you,"  said  the  preacher,  "for  taking  the  word  of  the  Lord  out  of  my  mouth."  I  think  that 
practically  you  have  taken  my  words  out  of  my  mouth.  The  remark  made  by  our  President 
with  reference  to  our  four  years  here  has  given  me  a  thought ;  he  spoke  of  them  as  being  years 
of  contest,  but  perhaps  productive  of  the  greatest  good  that  we  have  ever  known.  I  think  per- 
haps no  one  of  us  here  would  claim  that  those  four  years  were  the  happiest  we  spent,  and  if 
happiness  in  life  is  the  summum  bonum,  I  think  we  have  got  to  look  later  on.  During  the  four 
j'ears  that  we  passed  we  were  so  young  that  it  had  few  if  any  regrets,  and  the  future  was 
bright  because  we  knew  nothing  about  it;  but  since  we  have  got  on  in  life  we  realize  the  fact 
that  the  acceptance  of  responsibilities  and  the  fulfillment  of  them  by  which  we  developed  the 
best  that  is  in  us,  and  do  the  most  for  our  fellow  man,  is  that  which  gives  us  the  greatest  hap- 
piness. I  think  it  is  the  current  feeling  that  if  we  could  live  our  lives  over  again  that  we  could 
do  very  much  better  than  we  have  done.  I  feel  that  is  my  case,  and  as  I  look  forward  to  life 
I  feel  that  my  ambitions  have  grown  somewhat  gray  with  my  hair.  I  have  gone  very  largely 
into  interests  which  are  outside  of  my  business,  which  I  told  you  a  few  years  ago  was  not  the 
vocation  in  life  which  I  would  have  picked  out  if  I  could  have  changed  it.  Morse  asked  me 
to  detail  whether  I  had  been  the  recipient  of  any  honors.  1  replied  that  perhaps  I  had 
received  more  than  I  deserved.  My  fellow  citizens,  I  am  glad  to  say,  have  been  exceedingly 
kind  to  me.  I  have  been  placed  upon  a  great  many  boards — boards  of  business,  boards  ec- 
clesiastical, boards  humanitarian — and  I  think  that  one  of  the  greatest  honors  that  I  have 
received  is  that  the  Alumni  Association  has  made  me  its  President,  and  in  that  position  I 
hope  to  be  able  to  do  more  for  Yale  in  a  direct  way  than  I  have  done  here.  We  live  in  an 
atmosphere  antagonistic  to  Yale:  the  citizens  of  Philadelphia  send  their  sons  to  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania  by  scores.  It  has  been  a  great  pleasure  to  me  that  I  have  been  able  to 
arrest  one  son  of  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  he  is  coming  to  Yale. 

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Another  one,  a  graduate  of  another  institution,  is  also  coming  here  under  my  auspices.  I 
have  sent  one  boy  here  who  graduates  to-morrow.  God  wilHng,  I  shall  send  another  one 
here  two  years  hence.  (Voice:  "When  are  you  going  to  stop,  Bill?")  I  hope  that  it  will  be 
my  lot.  Bob.  to  see  my  grandsons  here  (cries  of  "Good!"'),  and  that  the  grandsons  of  Bill, 
as  I  have  been  so  kindlj'  called,  will  matriculate  here  with  the  grandsons  of  1867,  and  that 
the  great  grandsons  of  '67  will  mingle  here  until  '67  passes  to  the  great  beyond.     (Applause.) 

jMr.  Morse: — It  has  always  been  customary  at  a  meeting  of  this  kind  to 
select  one  of  our  number  to  represent  us  at  the  Alumni  dinner,  and  1  take  great 
pleasure  in  nominating  Mr.   Showalter  to  represent  us. 

Motion  seconded  and  carried  unanimously. 

Mr.  Morse  : — At  all  thirtieth  reunions  it  is  customary  for  those  who  repre- 
sent us  at  Alumni  meetings  to  sit  on  the  stage  with  President  Dwight. 

Mr.  Fl.anders: — We  have  another  classinate  here,  a  gentleman  from  the 
State  of  Indiana,  whose  son  graduates  to-morrow,  and  I  am  sure  we  all  wish  to 
hear  from  a  loyal  son  of  Yale,  father  of  another  loyal  son  of  Yale.  We  will  now 
listen  to  Mr.  Parke. 

Mr.  Parke  : — In  this  case  I  will  have  to  plead  guilty  of  disregard  for  the  ties  and  affec- 
tions formed  in  College.  I  have  stayed  away.  I  have  not  been  here  for  thirty  years,  until 
several  letters  from  Mr.  Morse  asked  me  to  come,  together  with  the  fact  that  I  have  a  son 
graduating  here  to-morrow,  and  he  thought  it  a  shame  that  I  did  not  come  here  at  least  once 
in  thirty  years.  We  all  appreciate  the  value  of  education,  even  if  not  educated.  I  know  an 
old  Dutch  farmer  who  thought  that  education  was  a  good  thing,  and  he  sent  his  son  to  Col- 
lege, and  after  he  had  been  gone  for  two  or  three  3'ears  he  came  back  to  the  farm.  He 
sent  the  boy  to  town  with  a  wagon  and  the  boy  let  the  team  run  away,  doing  serious  dam- 
age. The  boy.  however,  escaped.  The  old  man  was  recounting  it  to  me  and  said:  "1  tell  you, 
Mr.  Parke,  I  spent  a  heap  of  money  getting  that  boy  educated,  and  the  little  fool  let  my 
mules  run  away."  His  idea  of  practical  education  had  not  been  met  by  sending  him  to  that 
College.  I  told  him  he  ought  to  have  sent  him  to  Harvard.  I  told  him  that  if  he  had  sent 
him  to  Harvard  he  would  have  found  something  which  would  have  suited  his  ideas  of  a  lib- 
eral education.  Now.  with  regard  to  South  Middle,  I  would  like  to  see  that  old  thing  stand. 
I  think  it  is  pretty.  Our  ideas  of  architecture  come  altogether  from  history  and 
association.  There  Is  hardly  anything  really  beautiful  in  architecture;  it  comes  altogether 
from  history  and  from  forms  that  associate  themselves  in  our  minds.  Now.  in  that  way  I 
think  that  that  old  South  Middle  is  very  pretty,  and,  so  far  as  destroying  the  general  plan  of 
the  quadrangle,  it  is  so  situated  upon  the  corner  that  when  the  other  old  buildings  are  torn 
away  there  will  be  a  sufficient  field  that  it  will  not  interfere  much  with  it.     Well,  I  am  glad 


that  Mr.  Morse  persuaded  me  to  come  here.  I  see  very  few  here  I  know,  for  I  was  in  1866 
a  few  years.  Well,  it  is  getting  late,  and  we  are  going  to  have  some  more  speeches.  I  am 
glad  to  be  here,  and  I  hope  I  shall  be  with  you  all  five  years  from  now. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — '67,  gentlemen,  has  also  provided  professors  for  other  Uni- 
versities, and  Professor  Perkins,  of  the  University  of  Vermont,  is  here  to-night. 

Prof.  Geo.  H.  Perkins  : — I  have  attended  but  one  of  the  amiiversaries — the  twenty- 
fifth — and  I  want  to  say  now  what  I  did  not  say  then,  that  I  did  not  attend  the  previous  anni- 
versaries because  of  any  thoughtlessness,  or  lack  of  attention,  but  because  I  simpiy  could  not ; 
but  I  determined  at  the  last  anniversary  that  I  would  not  let  another  go  by.  I  think  I  can- 
not be  accused  of  speaking  too  extravagantly  when  I  say  that  the  meeting  five  years  ago 
marks  an  epoch  in  my  life.  My  love  for  the  members  of  the  Class  has  been  stronger  and 
deeper  than  it  would  have  been  if  I  had  not  attended  that  gathering.  It  was  my  misfortune 
that  1  was  associated  with  the  Clas§  comparatively  little,  and  for  that  reason  I  am  the  more 
grateful  to  you  for  the  very  cordial  welcome  you  have  always  given  me.  Unlike  many  of 
you.  perhaps,  my  life  has  been  spent  in  College  circles,  and  the  longer  I  am  in  such  circles 
the  more  I  feel  the  importance  of  th'e  association  of  such  a  Class  as  this.  I  have  done  nothing 
great,  but  simply  the  best  I  could  to  help  those  with  whom  I  had  to  do  to  true  manhood. 
The  inspiration  has  come  largely  from  this  class;  the  idea  of  manliness  and  true  democratic 
manliness,  the  idea  of  true  earnestness  in  this  life,  have  come  to  me  very  largely  from  this 
Class,  unconsciously,  perhaps,  but  they  nevertheless  have  come  to  me,  and  1  shall  always  be 
thankful  for  the  influence  which  this  class  has  brought  to  bear  upon  my  life.  I  wish  my 
life  had  been  more  useful  than  it  has  been,  but  so  far  as  it  has  been  useful  and  successful 
one  great  element  in  that  usefulness  and  success  has  come  to  me  from  this  Class,  and  I  feel 
that  I  should  not  be  true  to  myself  and  what  I  have  accomplished  did  not  I  make  this  ac- 
knowledgment of  what  you  have  done  for  me.  I  have  been  almost  surprised  to  find  how 
my  heart  went  out  to  one  and  all  of  you  when  I  came  here.  Certainly  I  am  thankful  that  I  can 
call  j'ou  men  of  '67  brethren,  and  that  you  are  willing  to  call  me  one  of  yotir  brethren.  As  I 
look  out  from  my  window  in  Burlington  over  the  lake.  I  see  many  wonderful  sunsets;  I  can- 
not describe  them,  but  I  have  often  thought  that  the  clouds,  if  we  could  see  them  closely,  are 
simpl}^  dull  gray  mists  and  the  mountains  simply  gray  rocks — the  beauty  comes  from  some- 
where else.  And  so  it  is  with  us ;  the  influences  that  come  from  such  a  company  as  this  that 
makes  up  this  Cla=s  shine  upon  our  lives  and  brighten  them,  and  if  through  the  compound  in- 
fluence of  each  of  us  we  would  recollect  each  of  us  the  beauty  and  helpfulness  that  comes 
from  us  all,  the  world  will  be  better,  not  only  because  we  have  lived,  but  because  you  and  T 
have  been  brothers  together  here  at  Yale  in  this  Class  of  '67.     (Applause.) 

Mr.  Fl.\nder.s  : — Gentlemen,  we  all  subscribe  most  heartily  to  what  we  heard 
said  of  George  Adee  in  the  room  above  its.     He  has  made  one  first-class  speech, 

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but  he  is  chock  full  of  a  lot  more,  and  we  now  call  upon  him  to  give  us  another, 
and  I  would  say  that  as  it  is  sometimes  the  custom  and  habit  to  give  out  a  text,  i 
will  give  him  a  text  to  explain  how  it  was  we  were  beaten  at  Poughkeepsie. 

Mr.  Adee: — While  oratory  is  not  my  forte,  the  explanation  of  the  defeat  at  Poughkeep- 
sie is  easy ;  we  did  not  row  fast  enough.  I  want  to  say  a  word  about  this  Yale  spirit  that  we 
have  all  talked  about.  It  seems  to  me  that  it  has  practical  results.  Our  individual  effort, 
our  organized  collective  effort,  combined  with  the  highest  motives,  under  the  best  instructors, 
and  with  the  loftiest  aims,  under  a  democracy — the  democracy  of  Yale — such  as  exists  in 
no  such  perfection  anywhere  else  in  the  world,  combined  with  this  Yale  spirit,  have  pro- 
duced the  fruits  of  success  and  distinction  that  so  many  of  the  Class  of  '67  have  obtained  in 
the  pulpit,  at  the  bar,  in  medicine  and  in  business,  and  the  general  standard  of  usefulness  and 
success  which  all  the  rest  of  the  Class  seems  to  me  to  have  earned.  It  looks  very  much  as  if 
the  Class  of  '67.  in  the  estimation  of  our  faculty  and  graduates,  already  stands  second  to  the 
great  and  celebrated  Class  of  '53,  which  has  hitherto  been  supposed  to  contain  more  distin- 
guished men  than  any  Class  which  ever  graduated  here.  Now,  from  being  a  close  second,  we 
are  sure  to  be  first — first  because  the  Class  of  '53  has  already  been  forty-four  years  out  of  Col- 
lege, and  its  surviving  members  must  be  getting  too  old  to  do  much  more  in  this  world,  while 
the  distinguished  men  of  '67  will  go  on  increasing  their  distinction,  and  the  rest  of  us 
will  do  the  best  we  can.  It  seems  to  me  that  we  can  do  a  very  graceful  act,  and  I  hereby 
make  a  motion  that  our  Secretary  be  instructed  to  circulate  a  petition  throughout  the  class 
during  the  current  year  to  give  Jim  Wadsworth  an  honorary  degree.  He  is  a'  son  of  a  dis- 
tinguished man.  Jim  and  his  brother  served  with  credit  in  the  army,  Jim  himself  being  on 
Gen.  Warren's  staff.  He  then  came  to  Yale,  and  I  think  was  in  Yale  for  about  two  years. 
He  did  not  work  much  harder  than  anybody  else  did,  but  he  has  done  well  since,  and  I  am 
told  on  very  good  authority  that  he  came  within  an  ace  of  being  nominated  for  Governor 
v.ithin  the  past  two  or  three  years.  What  further  thing  I  have  to  say  is  that  we  ought  all  to 
keep  in  touch  with  the  University  all  the  time,  and  if  we  take  the  "Yale  Alumni  Weekly" 
we  will  keep  in  touch  with  the  College.   (Applause.) 

Mr.  Bruce: — I  desire  to  second  the  motion  of  Mr.  Adee  with  reference  to 
Mr.  Wadsworth. 

Carried    unanimously. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — One  other  classmate  of  ours  is  a  Professor  in  another  in- 
stitution of  learning,  and  he  has,  in  addition  to  many  other  distinctions,  one  which  I 
think  none  of  us  has  had  or  can  make  claim  to,  and  one  that  perhaps  no  other 
Yale  graduate  can  make  claim  to.  I  speak  now  of  Professor  Walker,  whose  son 
graduated  at  Amherst  and  took  a  post-graduate  course  at  Yale,  taking  the  degree 

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of  Dr.  of  Philosophy  at  the  age  of  twenty-two,  being  the  youngest  recipient  of  that 
degree  in  the  history  of  Yale. 

Prof.  Walker: — We  have  heard  a  great  deal  about  the  progression  of  Yale.  There  is  a 
query  in  my  mind,  suggested  by  the  events  of  the  evening,  as  to  whether  the  citizens  of  the 
city  have  kept  up  with  the  procession,  or  whether  it  is  that  there  might  not  be  at  least 
some  of  them  who  are  guilty  of  a  little  retrogression.  For  instance.  Brother  Wild  assigned 
me  and  my  wife  to  one  of  the  houses  on  Elm  street;  the  landlady  received  us  very  kindly, 
and  it  occurred  to  me  that  perhaps  I  should  not  be  home  to-night  by  12  o'clock,  and  I  asked 
her  to  give  me  a  night  key  to  the  front  door.  She  said  she  had  none,  but  the  gentleman  at  the 
head  of  the  table  loaned  me  his.  but  he  suggested  that  I  had  better  examine  the  door  to  find 
out  where  the  keyhole  was.  "Is  there  anything  odd  about  the  keyhole  of  the  house?"  I  asked. 
The  landlady  also  followed  me  to  the  door  and  asked  me  if  I  had  any  matches.  I  told  her 
I  was  not  a  smoker,  but  I  believed  in  letting  my  light  shine.  She  said  .she  would  let  the  gas 
burn,  and  asked  me  to  turn  it  out.  Now,  is  there  anything  peculiar  about  the  keyholes  of 
the  houses  in  New  Haven  which  cannot  be  remedied?  If  so,  we  should  have  some  investi- 
gation made  to  see  if  these  evils  cannot  be  remedied  in  some  way.  I  find  that  there  has  been 
progression  in  the  University,  yet  I  find  that  the  old  atmosphere  is  still  here.  A  few  years 
ago  I  brought  down  my  boy,  some  eighteen  years  of  age,  from  our  agricultural  farm  in  Am- 
herst, and  he  had  not  been  in  New  Haven  more  than  ten  minutes  before  he  got  the  Yale 
fever,  and  he  believed  that,  although  Amherst  was  the  most  lovely  spot,  so  far  as  nature  had 
done  its  work,  that  yet  there  was  a  spirit  about  Yale  that  was  the  spirit  for  him,  so  nothing 
would  satisfy  him  but  to  come  down  here  to  find  out  what  could  be  learned  at  New  Haven, 
and  so  for  three  years  he  has  been  studying  at  Yale,  and  will  take  his  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Philosophy  to-morrow,  and  I  believe  he  is  going  to  remain  and  teach  the  Yale  Juniors  next 
year,  as  an  assistant  in  Prof.  Boucher's  department.  What  are  the  elements  in  the  atmos- 
phere of  Yale  which  produce  men  like  '67!  What  are  some  of  the  causes  of  the  success  of 
our  Class?  Now,  I  am  an  Ohio  man.  I  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  and  I  was  crazy  for  an  edu- 
cation. I  went  into  the  army  and  took  my  Freshman  year  there.  I  went  to  Marietta  College 
in  Ohio,  and  Prof.  Andrews  examined  me  for  the  Freshman  Class,  and  he  said  I  could  not 
go  into  the  Freshman  Class,  but  could  go  to  the  Sophomore  Class.  I  remained  there  for  a 
year,  but,  on  thinking  it  over,  decided  I  wanted  to  go  to  the  best  college  there  was,  and  I 
heard  about  Yale.  I  looked  over  the  catalogue  and  said  that  Yale  was  the  place  for  me,  and 
next  year  I  started  for  New  Haven,  a  thousand  miles  East.  On  the  morning  of  my  arrival 
I  looked  out  of  my  windows  in  the  New  Haven  House,  and  said  to  my  chum :  "What  are 
those  long  rows  of  factories  over  there?"  '"Why,"  he  said,  "that  is  Yale  College."  I  found 
indeed  it  was  a  factory,  but  a  factory  where  they  produced  men,  and  for  men  there  is  the 
greatest  demand  in  all  the  world,  and  the  demand  will  never  exceed  the  supply.  One  thing  I 
learned  in  Yale  that  has  gone  with  me  all  through  my  life — to  divide  all  things  mto  two 
classes;  first  the  essentials,  and  .secondly  the  non-essentials.     I  find  that  the  essentials  are 

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comparatively  few  and  the  non-essentials  many.  So  I  have  determined  all  through  life  to 
get  hold  of  the  essentials,  and  if  I  have  obtained  any  success  whatever  it  is  through  seizing 
on  essentials.  Another  thing  I  have  found  out,  that  one  of  the  most  essential  things  in  the 
world  is  manhood.  Now,  some  reference  has  been  made  to  South  Middle  College.  It  seems  to 
me  that  it  ought  to  remain  for  many  reasons,  and  especially  for  this  reason — to  show  that 
in  the  gaining  of  education  brick  and  mortar,  stone  and  architectural  adornment,  however  con- 
venient, however  beautiful,  are  not  essential,  because  out  of  those  old  brick  dormitories,  in  their 
unsatisfactor}'  condition,  there  went  out  a  race  of  men  who  have  made  the  law,  who  have 
preached  the  gospel,  who  have  practiced  medicine,  who  have  planted  this  great  territory  of  ours 
with  institutions  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific,  and  who  have  that  most  essential  thing,  man- 
hood. Architecture  is  good,  but  architecture  will  not  make  a  university,  so,  unless  we  have 
men,  why  all  the  luxury  which  may  come  to  us  will  only  be  a  curse  instead  of  a  blessing.  It  is 
with  the  greatest  pleasure  that  I  come  here  to-night,  because  I  find  this  same  old  atmos- 
phere, the  same  men  who  came  here  full  of  the  effervescence  of  boyishness  more  than  thirty 
years  ago.  And  so  the  Class  of  '67  has  gone  out  and  made  its  mark  through  this  land  of 
ours.  Why  has  this  class  of  ours  succeeded  so  eminently?  When  I  first  went  out  of  this 
College  they  asked  me  what  Class  I  belonged  to.  I  said  '67.  When  we  were  boys  was  the 
beginning  of  the  war.  We  did  not  play  with  those  white  balls  which  bound  over  the  village 
green,  but  the  contest  was  with  cannon  balls,  and  the  blood  which  was  shed  was  not  the  mere 
wound  in  the  scrimmage,  but  it  was  the  heart's  blood  of  the  nation.  Now,  those  of  us  who 
went  through  that  self-sacrifice  were  inculcated  with  a  love  of  country  and  a  love  of  man- 
hood which  followed  us  through  these  years  in  College,  and  which  we  cannot  shake  off  if  we 
will,  and  this  is  the  cause  of  our  success.  I  think  this  Class  of  '67  will  hand  down  its  spirit 
to  its  sons  and  grandsons.       (Applause.) 

Mr.  Fl.\nders: — When  I  saw  the  first  catalogue  that  was  published,  and 
read  the  name  Caspar  Shrom  Bigler,  I  was  satisfied  that  the  possessor  of  that 
name  was  unique,  and  my  subsequent  acquaintance  with  him  has  convinced  me 
that  my  judgment  was  correct,  and  I  am  told  that  in  the  City  of  Harrisburg  and 
State  of  Pennsylvania  he  has  made  an  indelible  impression. 

Mr.  Bigler: — Mr.  Chairman,  to-day  you  have  had  no  fly  in  your  ointment.  I  am  per- 
haps not  more  than  thirty  minutes  older  than  I  was  when  Tom  Hedge  called  me  a  liar,  and 
as  I  looked  around  on  the  array  of  witnesses  he  might  call,  I  pocketed  my  dignity,  and  that 
is  saying  a  good  deal  for  me.  too.  As  the  various  speeches  were  uttered,  I  picked  up  a  point 
here  and  there  which  I  disagreed  with.  Tom  said  one  good  thing  when  he  referred  to 
Spencer.  I  am  in  thorough  sympathy  with  everything  he  has  said  about  Spencer.  His  high 
and  noble  and  gentlemanly  life  and  character  will  do  much.  As  to  the  old  college  buildings. 
I  am  decidedly  in  favor  of  the  living,  and  of  letting  them  do  whatever  they  please.     It  is  a 

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pretty  difficult  thing  to  address  a  class  meeting  after  thirty  years.  You  do  not  know  what  to 
say.  Paul  said  that  the  greatest  of  all  virtues  was  charity,  and  he  was  wrong.  There  is  an- 
other virtue,  far  greater  than  that,  that  he  never  dreamed  of,  and  that  is  justice.  With 
justice  in  this  world  we  would  not  have  to  die  to  .see  the  New  Jerusalem;  it  would  be  es- 
tablished here.  With  justice,  Mr.  Chairman,  there  would  have  been  no  need  to  take  up  a  col- 
lection to  feed  500,000  of  the  very  poor  of  London.  That  is  a  fact,  I  think,  that  has  never 
struck  us,  and  that  is  a  fact  that  has  worried  me  a  good  deal,  because  I  have  had  a  pleasant 
life.  I  will  recite  a  piece  of  poetry  by  Francis  Brown  (recites  it).  It  might  be  that  when 
we  speak  of  the  atmosphere  of  Yale  we  should  let  our  thoughts  go  out  a  little  further,  and 
think  of  those  who  never  come  within  the  shadow  of  that  atmosphere. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — We  are  all  of  us  sorry  that  Dunning  is  not  present  to-night, 
having  sailed  for  Europe  a  few  weeks  ago,  but  another  classmate  of  ours  from 
Boston,  a  partner  of  Dunning's,  a  representative  both  of  the  clerical  and  of  the  edi- 
torial profession,  and  the  head  and  manager  and  joint  proprietor  with  Dunning 
of  the  great  paper  known  as  the  "Congregationalist,"  Morton  Dexter,  is  with  us. 

Mr.  Dexter  : — I  wish  first  to  impress  the  fact,  which  has  been  already  uttered  once  or 
twice,  but  which  has  impressed  me  so  profoundly  that  I  would  again  reiterate  it,  that  it  is  an 
intense  delight  to  meet  the  men  whom  we  have  not  seen  for  thirty  years.  It  is  a  delight  to 
meet  all  of  you,  but  to  come  here  and  see  those  men  whom  I  have  not  met  for  thirty  years 
has  touched  me  deeply.  I  want  you  all  to  feel  that  the  next  five  years  will  be  happier  and 
stronger  years  for  having  met  you  here.  Dunning  gave  me  a  message  of  love  for  you  all, 
and  it  was  with  the  profoundest  regret  that  he  failed  to  be  here.  His  doctor  sent  him  away 
for  his  health  to  the  other  side  of  the  ocean,  and  so,  with  the  greatest  reluctance  and  regret, 
he  made  up  his  mind  to  absent  himself  from  this  gathering.  I  am  sure  he  is  thinking  of  us 
to-night,  and  if  he  were  here  he  would  tell  you  how  warm  his  affection  is  for  every  one  of 
you.  It  has  been  my  pleasure  to  be  associated  with  him  for  a  number  of  years  past.  Our 
lives  have  been  very  closely  connected  during  almost  our  whole  career,  with  the  exception  of 
a  few  years,  and  for  the  last  eight  or  ten  years  we  have  been  co-proprietors  and  editors  of  the 
journal  which  has  been  named.  I  say  that  there  are  few  men  of  us  all  who  have  met  greater 
success  in  life  than  he  has  met.  He  has  made  an  international  reputation,  and  is  greatly 
honored  in  England.  As  a  preacher  and  administrator  of  one  of  our  great  benevolent  so- 
cieties, and  lately  as  editor,  he  has  made  his  mark  in  a  way  of  which  you  would  be 
proud.  His  success  is  due  to  the  fact  that  before  he  was  an  editor  or  anything  elese  he  was 
a  man.  He  sent  one  of  his  sons  here.  His  son  is  still  in  the  University,  in  the  capacity  of  an 
instructor,  and  it  is  a  fact  of  which  the  Class  may  well  be  proud.  He  is  a  very  remarkable 
young  man,  a  wonderful  fellow,  and  is  going  to  make  his  mark  in  the  world,  and  we  all 
may  be  proud  of  him.     As  for  my=elf.  my  life  has  been  a  quiet  one — the  life  of  a  directing 

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journalist.  I  have  had  some  honors,  but  I  will  allude  to  but  one,  because  mention  has  been 
made  of  it  in  connection  with  some  other  men.  Dunning  had  been  President  of  the  Boston 
Alumni,  and  it  was  my  fortune  last  winter  to  be  honored  by  the  same  position.  The  fear  has 
been  expressed  here  to-night  that  the  old  democratic  spirit  of  Yale  was  passing  away.  A 
short  time  ago  I  said,  in  talking  to  a  friend,  that  the  increasing  luxury  of  Yale  might  de- 
moralize that  democratic  spirit.  He  told  me  that  his  father  was  a  day  laborer  here  in  New 
Haven,  and  that  everj'body  in  his  Class  knew  him.  He  said  that  he  had  graduated  this  week, 
and  during  all  his  time  at  College  he  had  been  known  as  a  poor  man,  but  that  it  had  made 
no  difference  to  him,  and  that  his  position  had  been  in  every  respect  precisely  what  he  could 
have  wished  it  to  be.  He  said:  "You  need  have  no  fear;  the  old  college  spirit  in  Yale  is  just 
as  strong  as  it  ever  was."  I  believe  the  Yale  spirit  will  always  linger.  I  know  of  no  other 
college  where  the  democratic  spirit — where  the  reliance  on  what  is  in  a  man — is  so  con- 
trolling as  here.  I  see  a  great  deal  of  the  Harvard  men.  I  have  a  great  affection  for  them, 
as  I  nearly  went  there.  I  have  many  friends  and  some  relatives  in  the  Harvard  faculty.  My 
relations  are.  and  always  have  been,  most  cordial  and  pleasant,  and  yet  I  thank  God  that  I 
did  not  go  to  Harvard,  but  came  here.  The  older  I  get  the  more  enthusiastic  I  grow  for  Yale. 
I  have  stolen  five  boys  from  Harvard  and  sent  them  here,  and  they  never  regretted  it,  and  I 
think  we  ought  all  to  be  enthusiasts  for  Yale,  spreading  the  Yale  spirit,  not  in  any  underhand 
way,  but  simply  holding  up  the  tremendous  advantages  which  this  University  presents. 
We  ought  to  do  all  we  can  to  promote  the  interests  of  Yale,  and  I  want  to  call  your  attention 
here  to  the  Yale  Alumni  fund.  Some  years  ago  President  Dwight  appointed  me  on  the 
board  of  directors,  and  that  fund,  which  is  intended  to  provide  money  for  the  general  pur- 
poses of  the  University,  is  not  only  exceedingly  necessary,  but  is  wonderfully  useful.  This 
is  not  the  place  to  speak  on  the  subject,  but  I  want  to  remind  you  of  it,  and  to  ask  you  to  give 
it  your  serious  thought.  ^ly  heart  is  full  of  how  glad  I  am  to  see  you  all,  and  how  I  hope 
I  may  be  spared  to  meet  with  \'ou  again  many  and  many  a  time,  and  that  you  will  come  to  see 
me  if  any  of  you  are  in  Boston. 

Mr.  Fl.\xders: — It  is  unnecessary;,  gentlemen,  to  introduce  the  next  class- 
mate, or  to  tell  you  what  he  has  done.     I  present  to  you  Wallace  Bruce. 

Mr.  Bruce  : — Classmates,  in  our  Freshman  year  we  had  a  class  meeting,  and  we  selected 
at  that  time  a  Chairman.  Thirty-four  3'ears  have  passed  b}-,  and  now  in  1897.  under  the  old 
banner  of  blue  that  bears  the  figures  of  our  class,  the  man  who  was  selected  for  that  first 
meeting  presides,  and  we  are  all  proud  of  Flanders  of  Milwaukee.  Something  has  been 
said  by  several  speakers  in  reference  to  the  old  South  Middle.  It  would  be  too  bad  to  have 
South  Middle  go;  it  is  too  bad  to  have  it  stay.  (Voice:  "Amen!")  The  Amen  corner  may 
not  respond  so  heartily  when  I  get  through  with  my  prayer,  for  I  have  a  suggestion  that 
perhaps  might  be  worth  while  for  the  College  to  consider.     It  is  in  the  way  where  it  is.  but 

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there  are  many  sites  where  it  would  not  be  in  the  way,  on  some  vacant  lot  where  it  might 
be  shaded  by  trees  that  might  be  ancestral.  In  some  spot,  not  too  remote,  there  might  be 
taken,  brick  by  brick,  old  South  Middle,  and  put  up  again  from  foundation  to  garret.  I 
believe  that  could  be  done,  and  it  would  be  an  honor  to  Yale  to  see  old  South  Middle  stand 
again.  South  Middle  means  a  great  deal,  not  only  to  all  members  of  this  Class,  but  to  every 
Class  that  comes  and  follows  in  the  long  line.  Many  things  have  been  said  of  the  spirit  of 
old  Yale,  which  brings  men  from  across  the  sea  and  gathers  them  together  in  one  great  bond 
of  love  and  affection.  I  believe  there  is  one  word  the  key  to  it  all.  It  was  borne  back,  perhaps, 
by  Professor  Goodyear.  That  one  word  is  "Earnestness"  and  hearty  purpose.  I  have  a  boy  at 
Yale  in  the  Sophomore  Class,  and  as  I  saw  his  face  flush  in  that  Freshman  race,  and  as 
I  saw  the  pallor  come  over  it  when  she  lost  the  University,  I  felt  that  that  quality  of  hearti- 
ness and  earnestness  of  purpose  would  last  forever.  There  has  been  perhaps  more  to  me  in 
this  day  than  to  anybody  else  here.  This  day  represents  more  to  me  than  any  anniversary 
of  Yale:  this  is  the  anniversary  of  my  wedding  day.  I  do  not  know  how  many  of  the  rest 
of  you  have  their  wives  here,  but  I  know  that  I  could  not  keep  my  wife  home.  Now,  permit 
me  to  say  just  one  word  for  myself:  perhaps  most  of  you  know  that  I  have  done  as  much 
hard  work,  perhaps,  from  the  time  I  came  into  the  class  of  '67,  as  any  man  in  this  neighbor- 
hood. I  have  put  in  a  good  hard  struggle  for  what  you  might  call  a  moderate  success  in  life. 
I  believe  in  optimism,  and  I  am  so  thoroughly  impressed  with  it  that  there  is  not  a  bit  of 
my  life  but  that  has  touched  the  roseate  side.  I  have  been  living  in  a  dream  to-day,  my 
friends.  It  does  not  seem  real  at  all.  Old  times  have  come  back  to  me,  and  it  has  seemed 
a  sort  of  poem  to  me.  My  wife  herself  has  seemed  a  poem.  It  seemed  to  me  that  New  Haven 
was  a  sort  of  a  poem ;  then  the  years  when  I  studied  law,  it  all  seemed  a  poem ;  and  then  the 
years  along  the  Hudson  River,  and  in  the  City  of  Edinburgh — all  seemed  a  poem. 
(Mr.  Bruce  then  read  a  poem.) 

IN  THE  HARBOR  OF  DREAMS. 


Suggested  by  the  story  of  the  phantom  ship  which  appeared  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Daven- 
port and  the  first  settlers  of  New  Haven — probably  a  mirage  or  reflection  of  some  vessel  far 
out  to  sea.  Written  on  the  "Richard  Peck."  en  route  to  New  Haven  for  the  Trigintennial 
meeting  of  his  Class,  '67. 

By  Wallace  Bruce. 

Was  it  a  vision  or  only  a  dream 

That  far  off  morn  in  New  Haven  Bay, 
Or  a  vessel  refracted  in  sunny  gleam 

Miraged  afar  and  melting  away. 
Bringing  no  message  across  the  deep 

To  dwellers  beside  Quinnipiac  stream. 
Where  tide  and  current  play  hide  and  seek; 

Was  it  a  vision  or  only  a  dream? 

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Vision   or   dream,   prophetic   still 

Of   Memory's   pier   where   we   sit  and   wait 
For  landward  breezes  the  sails  to  fill 

Of  absent  brothers  who  voyage  late ; 
With  flag  at  masthead  they  sailed  away. 

And  pennon  reflecting  the  morning  beams, 
Alas,   beyond  our   hailing  to-day, 

Riding  afar  from  the  Harbor  of  Dreams. 

Nay,  not  afar !     In  the  offing  now 

See  a  stately  ship  with  gossamer  sails, 
With  old-time  captain  upon  the  bow. 

Whose  locks  are   bleached  by  a   hundred  gales ; 
Is  this  the  ship  that  our  fathers  knew, 

Whose  legend  athwart  the  century  gleams, 
Returning  across  the  horizon  blue 

To  anchor  at  last  in  the  Harbor  of  Dreams? 

And  lo !  as  we  look,  behold  the  Bay 

Is  filled  with  the  craft  of  seventy  years, 
Piloted  sure  by  the  skipper  gray 

As  up  the  channel  he  proudly  steers. 
Past  Light  House  Point  and  Savin  Rock 

Onward  the  long  procession   sweeps. 
To  anchor  beside  the  old  Long  Dock, 

Where  Time  his  sentinel  fondly  keeps. 

And  faces  peer  o'er  the  shadow-y  rail 

Of  those  we  knew  in  the  early  prime, 
While  up  from  the  waters  the  cry  of  Yale 

Swells  out  in  a  chorus  of  olden  time. 
It  cannot  be  but  the  scene  is  real. 

As  the  echoes  float  from  shore  to  shore. 
And  following  close  with  steady  keel. 

Behold  the  banner  of  '24 ! 

All  quiet,  boys,  the  crew  is  asleep. 

Only  Silliman  left  at  the  wheel ; 
Ulysses-like  from  the  misty  deep. 

While  over  the  wake  the  shadows  steal. 
Long  may  the  flag-ship  lead  the  line. 

Stretching   away   to   the   century's   rim. 
And  the  sun  of  Nineteen  Hundred  shine. 

Ere  the  figures  of  '24  grow  dim  ! 

Onward  a  proud  flotilla  of  fame 

By  the  ship  that  seems  like  a  judge's  stand, 
Assigning  a  place  to  each  by  name. 

Where  they  drop  their  anchors  on  either  hand. 
It  somehow  seems  that  the  captain's  face 

Has  an  antique  look,  familiar  and  hale. 
For  the  old-time  skipper  with  =tately  grace 

Bears  close  resemblance  to  Elihu  Yale. 

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(Applause.) 


So  this  was  the  vessel  our  fathers  knew, 

Prophetic  of  all  the  clays  to  be, 
Waiting   to   pick   from   all    the   crew 

The  classes  that  ever  shall  "bear  the  gree." 
Striving  to  sift  the  record  well, 

To  know  which  bore  Yale's  truest  leaven, 
She  listened  to  what  the  decades  tell. 

Then  wrote  the  figures  '67. 

Ah.  well,  but  the  ships  to-morrow  will  sail. 
And  the  phantom  vessel  again  put  to  sea; 

The  dream  of  the  night  the  morrow  shall  pale. 
The  shadows  may  fall  and  sunshine  will  flee. 

But  up  from  the  cares  and  burdens  of  life 
A  ray  of  bright  promise  in  radiance  streams, 

Our  happiest  wish   in   the  turmoil   and   strife. 
To  anchor  again  in  the  Harbor  of  Dreams. 


Mk.  Flanders: — Gentlemen,  at  the  business  meeting  this  morning,  you 
doubtless  remember  the  motion  which  Mr.  Bissell  made,  and  which  was  somewhat 
summarily  disposed  of,  to  the  eflfect  that  the  faculty  should  be  brought  in.  That 
motion  was  brought  into  consideration,  and  duly  adopted,  and  the  faculty  are  here 
in  the  presence  of  Mr.  ]\Iorse. 

Mr.  Morse  then  introduced  the  Faculty. 

Mr.  Flanders: — Gentlemen,  if  the  Court  was  not  quite  as  near  as  it  is,  I 
would  say  that  in  our  part  of  the  country  we  have  sometimes  what  ar<;  called  offi- 
cers of  the  Court,  and  they  are  said  to  be  the  hands  of  the  Court ;  some- 
times the  hand  is  very  large,  sometimes  it  is  very  heavy,  and  some- 
times it  is  very  clumsy.  We  have  had  at  least  four  hands  of  this  Court 
speaking  for  the  Class  of  '67,  and  we  have  just  seen  one  very  skillful  hand,  that 
of  Mr.  Morse,  and  we  have  recognized  it  in  every  item  of  our  lives  since  we  have 
been  here,  and  I  believe  that  to  two  hands  of  the  Court  were  committed  the  duty 
of  providing  this  banquet — George  Adee  and  William  B.  Davenport.  William 
R.  Davenport  is  here  to-night,  as  he  has  always  been  heretofore,  and  fills  an  hon- 
orable position  in  his  profession  in  the  City  of  Brooklyn,  and  is  the  Public  Adminis- 
trator of  that  City,  and  I  should  say  that  if  he  administers  that  office  as  well  as  he 
has  administered  this  dinner,  it  cannot  be  improved  upon. 

Mr.  Davenport  : — I  am  reminded  of  the  story  of  the  young  man  who,  having  made  his 
first  trip  abroad,  in  telling  his  relatives  of  its  various  incidents,  among  other  things  said :  "I 

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stopped  beside  a  yawning  abyss."  An  old  aunt  asked  him,  "Was  it  yawning  when  j-ou  got 
there?"  I  fear  that  if  I  say  anything  you  also  may  be  yawning.  The  "Umbria"  is  plough- 
ing her  way  eastward,  bearing  a  classmate  of  ours.  It  was  impossible  for  him  to  arrange  to  go 
on  the  steamer  next  Sunday  for  lack  of  space,  but  he  charged  me  that  I  should  bear  to  you 
the  loving  regards  of  Al  Lamb  and  his  sincere  regrets  at  his  inability  to  be  here 
to-night.  Al  Lamb  is  now  the  first  jury  lawyer  of  Brooklyn.  For  myself,  in  the  five  years  since 
I  have  been  with  you  I  have  served  in  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  my  State  that  re- 
modeled the  Constitution,  and  I  have  also  had  the  high  honor  of  becoming  President  of  a  suc- 
cessful Alumni  Association  of  Yale.  We,  all  of  us,  I  am  sure,  enjoy,  as  I  enjoy,  these  meetings. 
I  share,  I  think,  one-fifth  of  the  honor  of  having  been  at  every  one  of  them.  While  time  shall 
run  on,  while  this  success  that  the  members  of  this  Class  have  been  securing  shall  continue 
to  flow  in,  may  we  still  remember  that  we  are  sons  of  old  Yale,  and  members  of  the  Class  of 
'67,  and  that  this  in  a  degree  accounts  for  our  success. 

Mr.  Fl.\xders  : — Although  Senator  Wetmore  was  not  permitted  to  be  here,  we 
have  a  representative  from  httle  Rhody  in  Andy  Swan. 

Mr.  Sw-\x  :- — Mr.  President,  I  am  not  a  natural  orator,  and  I  am  rather  surprised  that 
I  was  not  called  on  before,  as  I  was  expecting  to  be  called  on,  and  had  a  speech  all  prepared, 
but  the  other  and  wittier  orators  of  the  evening  have  stolen  all  my  thunder.  I  will  therefore 
make  a  short  speech  by  moving  that  we  adjourn. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — That  motion  is  not  in  order. 

Mr.  Small  : — Mr.  Chairman,  the  question  came  up  as  to  whether  we  should 
hold  our  next  meeting  in  1901  or  1902.  I  would  suggest  that  the  gentlemen  now 
present  decide  upon  that  question. 

Mr.  Davenport  : — In  the  year  1901  almost  every  son  of  the  University  will  be 
here  to  celebrate  its  two  hundredth  anniversary.  I  think  that  in  view  of  the  mul- 
tiplicity of  exercises,  in  the  general  interest  and  excitement  that  will  take  place  at 
the  University,  that  it  would  be  an  error  of  judgment  to  attempt  to  hold  the  class 
meeting,  and  I  therefore  move  that  we  continue  the  regular  course,  and  that  the 
next  meeting  be  held  in  1902. 

Mr.  W.  H.  Ixgham  : — I  would  like  to  suggest  that  a  number  of  our  class- 
mates who  come  from  a  distance  would  find  it  perhaps  a  very  impossible  thing  for 
them  to  come  twice.  Those  who  wish  to  come  to  a  bi-centennial  will  not  care  to 
come  2,000  miles  or  3,000  miles,  as  the  case  may  be,  one  year  afterwards,  and  T 
think  it  is  due  to  them  that  we  should  hold  the  two  meetings  at  one  time. 

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Mr.  Baldwin  suggests  the  year  1902,  but  amends  by  suggesting  that  it  be  left 
to  Adee,  Morse  and  Davenport. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — Those  of  you  in  favor  of  the  substitute  as  proposed  by  Mr. 
Baldwin,  say  "Aye."     Motion  carried. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — I  understand  the  whole  subject  to  have  been  left  to  this  Com- 
mittee, and  I  understand  from  what  Mr.  Morse  tells  me  that  prior  to  the  com- 
mencement of  1 90 1  the  Committee  will  probably  communicate  with  each  member 
of  the  class  and  ascertain  from  them  how  many  are  to  be  here  at  that  time,  and 
with  that  end  in  view  they  can  then  determine  what  their  action  will  be. 

If  this  subject  is  now  disposed  of  we  will  be  glad  to  hear  from  Mr.  Spellman. 

Mr.  Spellman  : — A  speech  at  this  late  hour,  unless  you  have  something  to  say,  is  an 
imposition  ;  everything  that  can  be  said  has  been  said,  and  it  is  best  for  me  to  say  that  every- 
thing that  has  been  said  I  repeat,  and  all  the  glories  of  Yale  that  have  been  recited  I  now 
recite  and  adopt  as  my  own.  That  I  am  glad  that  I  am  here  my  presence  shows ;  that  I  will 
come  again  is  .settled.  This  day  last  year,  when  my  son  took  his  degree,  was  the  most 
glorious  day  I  ever  spent.  I  did  not  take  my  degree  here,  and  I  did  not  realize  then  what  I 
lost.  Last  year  when  the  degrees  were  given  out  and  I  saw  my  son  take  his,  and  I  saw  tht 
assembly  of  honorable  men  that  were  there  upon  the  platform,  when  I  listened  to  what  was 
said,  and  when  my  ears  heard  the  music  of  that  glorious  orchestra,  it  thrilled  me  so  that  the 
tears  ran  down  my  cheeks.  I  thanked  God  that  I  was  permitted  to  have  a  son,  and  that  I  was 
permitted  to  send  him  to  Yale.  When  anything  comes  from  Yale  I  am  interested  in  it — 
standing  as  I  did  in  the  street  waiting  to  hear  from  the  boat  race,  standing  there  cheering 
when  I  could  cheer  and  feeling  sorrowful  when  the  result  came.  All  of  us  were  somewhat 
interested  in  the  silver  campaign.  Being  a  Democrat  myself,  I  had  some  trouble  in  identify- 
ing myself  with  anything  this  year,  but  I  could  imagine  how  the  question  of  16  to  i  could 
have  been  illustrated  in  some  parts  of  the  country,  and  if  I  had  been  called  upon  to  speak 
upon  free  silver  I  am  confident  that  my  argument  would  have  been  adopted.  I  will  borrow 
this  hat  in  order  to  illustrate  it.  It  is  free  silver  we  want,  and  free  silver  we  can  have,  if  you 
will  only  follow  the  proper  method.  Now,  this  room  is  full  of  silver.  If  you  wish  free 
silver  j-^ou  can  have  as  much  as  you  want.  I  see  before  me  money.  It  is  here ;  it  is  there 
now.  1  put  it  in  the  hat.  I  see  another  piece  there.  It  stands  out  on  all  sides.  (Mr.  Spell- 
man does  some  juggling  with  the  hat  and  50-cent  pieces.)  That  is  an  illustration  of  free 
silver.     (Applause.) 


Mr.  Flanders  : — Mr.  Spellman  is  evidently  a  money  maker  and  very  success- 
ful, but  he  is  entirely  incorrect  in  one  thing,  in  speaking  of  this  as  a  late  hour — it 

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is  just  the  shank  of  the  evening,  and  I  desire  now  to  present  to  you  a  man  whom  we 
are  always  pleased  to  Hsten  to — Dave  Burrell. 

Mr.  Burrell: — I  do  want  to  say  one  thing,  and  that  is  that  I  have  marked  here  to-night 
a  very  manifest  change  in  the  basis  of  moral  judgment  among  the  boys  of  '67.  I  look  back 
on  our  earlier  reunions,  and  I  see  that  we  have  changed  our  basis  of  judgment  as  to  men. 
There  are  many  here  to-night  who  when  they  left  College  we  judged  from  certain  arti- 
ficial standards  as  to  what  honors  they  got,  what  societies  they  belonged  to.  That  was  all 
right,  gentlemen,  but  we  have  found  out  since  that  some  of  the  men  who  neither  got  honors 
nor  belonged  to  societies  are  the  best  men  among  us.  We  are  beginning  to  see  things  very 
clearlj',  and  seeing  men  as  men,  not  measuring  them  by  any  artificial  standards  which  we 
made  when  boys.  We  are  boys  still,  but  we  have  grown  in  that  particular  way.  We  have 
measured  each  other  here  to-night.  I  do  not  think  a  college  prize  or  a  college  society  has 
been  mentioned  to-night.  We  have  looked  at  each  other  to-night  as  men,  and  that  is  what  it 
ought  to  be.  Now,  Bob  Alison  started  to  make  a  humorous  melancholy  speech  to-night. 
Bob  has  come  a  good  way,  and  I  bless  him  for  a  word  he  said  five  years  ago.  In  speaking  of 
two  boys  that  are  in  college  to-day  he  said:  'T  told  them  to  be  Christian  gentlemen  in  college. 
I  didn't  lay  down  any  rules  aboiit  card  playing  or  anything  else.  I  have  found  out  one  thing, 
tjiat  it  is  better  to  be  a  square  man  than  to  be  a  good  fellow."  I  told  him  that  was  a  tre- 
mendous sermon,  but  that  it  was  the  truth.  It  is  a  good  thing  to  be  a  good  fellow,  but  it  is  a 
better  thing  to  be  a  square  man.  As  I  have  listened  to  what  you  have  been  saying  one  by 
one  I  have  thought  of  what  Tom  Brown  loved  so  well — Thomas  Hughes  of  blessed  memory, 
the  manly  adviser  of  college  men : — 

"  Who  misses  or  who  gains  the  prize. 
Go  lose  or  conquer  if  you  can; 
But  if  you  fall,  or  if  you  rise, 
Be  each,  pray  God,  a  gentleman."       (Applause.) 

Mr,  Flanders: — In  the  wild  and  woolly  West  we  have  come  to  know  that 
New  York  lawyers  think  there  are  not  any  lawyers  outside  of  the  City  of  New  York, 
and  when  we  come  in  contact  with  them  we  are  very  apt  to  think  that  they  are 
right,  and  that  we  are  not  lawyers  at  all.  Now,  we  have  some  of  the  representa- 
tives of  our  profession  here  from  the  great  City  of  New  York,  and  we  have  one 
who,  having  made  a  specialty  of  patent  and  trademark  litigation,  is  known  all  over 
the  country,  and  that  is  our  classmate,  Coe. 

Mr.  Coe: — I  am  in  the  same  position  as  Judge  Showalter;  I  can  speak  from  the  record, 
but  I  cannot  make  a  social  .speech.  I  have  never  enjoyed  a  few  hours  more  than  I  have  at 
this  reunion  of  our  dear  old  class.     I  cannot  say  very  much.     For  the  last  few  years  I  have 

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cali 

been  going  along,  trying  to  do  my  duty  in  the  line  of  patent  and  trademark  law,  and  have 
made  some  moderate  success.  My  classmates,  you  must  take  the  will  for  the  deed,  for,  as  I 
said  before,  I  cannot  make  a  social  speech,  and  I  cannot  say  anything  except  that  I  have  en- 
joyed myself  immensely,  and  my  heart  has  gone  out  to  all  of  you  one  by  one  as  I  have  heard 
you  speak. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — In  Freshman  year  Bob  De  Forest  remarked  in  regard  to  a 
classmate  of  ours,  "Ira  furor  brevis  est,"  a  liberal  translation  of  which  is,  "Anger 
is  a  brief  madness."  Now,  Ira  Seymour  Dodd  is  here,  and  he  applied  that  term 
to  him,  and  from  his  proverbial  good  nature  I  am  quite  sure  that  it  was  not  an 
appropriate  term  to  apply  to  him  even  in  jest. 

Mr.  Dodd: — Well,  classmates,  after  the  brilliant  display  of  wit,  wisdom  and  oratory  we 
have  heard  here  to-night,  it  is  very  hard  for  a  plain  preacher  like  me  to  talk,  for  although  it  is 
our  business  to  talk,  there  are  some  kinds  of  talking  I  cannot  do.  There  are  some  sorts 
of  vegetables  that  grow  quickly,  but  it  takes  a  good  while  for  an  acorn  to  become  an  oak. 
I  have  attended  the  three  or  four  last  meetings,  and  I  have  been  thinking  of  the  great  change 
in  the  standpoint  of  this  class;  I  see  that  we  are  just  about  ceasing  to  become  boys  and  are 
beginning  to  be  men.  We  look  at  life  from  another  standpoint,  and  it  has  taken  thirty  years 
to  make  the  change.  I  have  been  doing  my  work  in  the  usual  way,  and,  I  hope,  with  some 
success.  I  have  a  boy  who  graduates  to-morrow,  and  it  is  a  happy  time  for  me  to  be  with 
you,  not  only  to  see  you  all,  but  to  see  my  son  graduate.  I  went  out  in  front  of  the  New 
Haven  House  last  night,  and  I  met  three  or  four  of  the  fellows,  and  I  knew  every  one  ex- 
cept one,  and  I  think  they  pla3'ed  a  mean  trick  on  me,  for  they  stood  Flanders  up  there  and 
asked  me  who  he  was,  and  I  did  not  know  him,  and,  really,  I  cannot  tell  you  how 
badly  I  felt  that  I  did  not  recognize  Flanders,  because  he  was  one  of  the  men  whom  I  always 
think  of  when  I  think  of  the  Class  of  1867.  Classmates,  I  am  glad  to  meet  you  here,  and  I 
hope  wc  will  have  many  more  reunions.  We  are  bald-headed  some  of  us,  but  perhaps  because 
the  hair  is  gone — I  won't  say  that  we  can  see  into  each  other's  heads  more  clearly,  but  we  can 
see  each  other's  hearts. 


Mr.  Wilde  said  he  had  the  proofs  of  the  pictures  taken  this  morning  and 
passed  them  around. 

Mr.  Flanders : — I  have  been  trying,  gentlemen,  to  decide  between  the  clerg}- 
men  and  the  lawyers,  but  while  the  clergymen  are  getting  used  up  the  lawyers  hold 
out,  and  we  have  Carrington,  of  New  York,  whom  I  know  we  want  to  hear 
from. 

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Mr.  Carringtox  : — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen,  I  do  not  know  that  I  can  add  much  to 
what  has  been  already  said.  I  can  say  that  Brother  Showalter  struck  the  keynote  of  the 
lawyer  speaking  outside  of  his  profession,  as  he  said  we  have  to  speak  from  the  record. 
I  can  say  that  I  have  made  before  juries  in  New  York  some  speeches  which  were  very  good, 
but  I  had  the  evidence  in  the  case  before  me.  Now,  on  looking  around  on  this  Class,  I  can  sim- 
ply say.  that  your  faces  all  show  that  you  are  men  of  experience,  and  that  the  thirty  years'  con- 
tact with  the  world  which  j-ou  have  had  has  sharpened  you  up,  and  that  you  all  seem  to  me  to  be 
brighter  and  your  wit  to  flow  with  more  readiness  than  it  did  at  previous  meetings.  It  seems 
to  me.  therefore,  that  this  contact  with  the  world  has  been  improving  us.  We  thought  our- 
selves pretty  bright  on  leaving  College,  but  I  think  we  are  brighter  how.  We  stand  here  to- 
day, gentlemen,  after  thirty  years,  and  it  seems  to  me  that  our  judgment  is  founded  upon  the 
experience  of  those  thirty  years.  We  see  now  what  we  have  done  in  those  thirty  years,  and  it 
was  not  what  some  of  the  men  were  expected  to  do.  There  was  an  individuality  in  the 
Class  of  '67  which  pervaded  the  whole  Class,  and  I  say  that  it  is  that  individuality  of  character 
which  has  been  greatly  developed,  and  we  stand  here  to-day  with  a  record,  which  is  an 
invaluable  one  so  far  as  the  Class  is  concerned.  I  can  only  say  that  I  am  glad  to  be  here,  and  to 
meet  you  all.  There  is  a  brotherly  feeling  amongst  us;  you  can  walk  up  to  a  man  and  feel 
that  you  can  call  him  Tom,  Jim  or  Dave,  no  matter  how  high  he  may  stand  in  the  world.  It 
seem?  to  me  that  our  record  is  one  that  we  should  be  proud  of,  and  I  only  hope  gentlemen,  that 
it  will  continue  to  improve,  and  that  we  may  all  be  permitted  to  meet  here  again  five  years  from 
now 

Mr.  Flanders  : — Prof.  A,  .S.  Clark,  of  the  Hartford  Deaf  and  Dumb  Asylum, 
has  been  engaged  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  in  the  effort  to  instruct  the 
unfortunates  in  that  institution,  and  I  will  ask  him  to  speak  to  us  to-night. 

Mr.  Clark  : — Mr.  Chairman  and  Classmates,  it  has  been  said  here  to-night  that  an 
Englishman  has  no  sense  of  humor.  Now  I  wish  that  Senator  Wetmore.  who,  with  myself, 
has  the  honor  of  being  a  native  of  England,  were  here,  for  I  am  sure  that  he  would  be  able 
to  demonstrate  that  a  person  born  in  England  can  see  as  far  as  anyone  through  a  brick  wall 
with  a  hole  in  it.  Another  thing.  I  am  sure  that  an  Englishman  of  the  right  sort  always 
knows  a  true  man  when  he  sees  one.  I  certainly  can  appreciate  the  manly  qualities  of  mem- 
bers of  '67.  Entering  College  as  I  did.  with  a  poorer  preparation  than  most  of  my  classmates 
had.  and  being  limited  in  other  ways.  I  can  yet  testify  that  I  have  uniformly  received  from 
my  classmates  courteous  treatment  and  consideration.  I  am  also  proud  of  the  fact  that  mem- 
bers of  this  class  have  done  and  are  doing  not  a  little  to  foster  and  increase  a  feeling  of  good 
will  between  America  and  England. 

Reference  was  made  by  Burrell  to  the  marked  advance  our  Class  has  made  in  the  past 
five  years.  I  was  about  to  speak  of  the  same  thing.  The  fact  gives  reason  for  rejoicing.  I 
believe  that  every  man  in  the  Class  is  dominated  by  a  noble  purpose  to  make  the  most  of  him- 

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self,  and  to  do  some  distinct  good  in  the  world.  Some  years  ago,  when  it  seemed  as  if  a 
slight  had  been  placed  on  the  class,  I  said  to  Prof.  Northrop  (whom  we  all  with  good  reason 
admire)  :  "The  class  of  '67  will  be  heard  from  yet."  As  a  class  we  have  perhaps  been  slow 
in  showing  what  we  can  do,  but  the  class  is  warming  to  its  work,  and  the  next  five  years  will 
witness  a  degree  of  achievement  far  greater  than  that  of  the  past  five  years. 

I  rejoice  in  all  the  success  that  has  come  to  so  many  of  my  classmates.  Some  attained  al- 
most at  once  a  point  of  vantage,  from  which  they  have  ever  since  exerted  a  powerful  and  in- 
creasing influence  for  good.  Others  have  been  gradually  attaining  to  positions  of  honor  and 
influence.  It  has  been  to  me  a  matter  of  frequent  regret  that  I  have  been  able  to  do  so  little 
to  win  renown  for  the  class;  but  for  myself  and  for  others  who  can  do  nothing  remarkable 
there  is  comfort  in  the  thought  that  a  man  is  greater  than  any  work  he  can  do,  and  that, 
though  he  may  not  achieve  greatness,  he  may  fill  the  position  in  which  God  has  placed  him 
with  fidelity,  perseverance  and  honor. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — I  would  like  to  hear  from  Mr.  Turrell,  a  prominent  and  pros- 
perous lawyer  in  the  City  of  New  York, 

Mr.  Turrell  : — Classmates,  perhaps  the  first  thought  in  getting  on  my  feet  is  one  of 
relief,  for  I  began  to  feel  nervous,  for  I  thought  perhaps  the  Chairman  had  mistaken  my  profes- 
sion, and  was  reserving  me  for  a  benediction.  Perhaps  I  might  relieve  my  mind  by  telling 
why  some  of  us  New  York  lawyers  think  there  are  no  lawyers  in  the  West ;  when  you  find 
there  are  seven  thousand  lawyers  in  New  York  City,  it  makes  one  apt  to  think  that  there  are 
no  other  lawyers  in  the  country.  I  will  refer  to  the  youthfulness  of  '67.  If  I  recollect  right, 
five  years  ago  we  adjourned  at  i  o'clock,  when  some  of  us  thought  it  should  be  12.30.  This 
year  the  fact  that  we  can  keep  awake  so  late  is  an  evidence  of  the  youthfulness  of  the  Class  of 
'67.  I  can  only  re-echo  the  sentiments  already  expressed.  I  shall  not  undertake  to  reiterate 
anything  that  has  been  said  here  to-night.  If  I  did  I  should  be  endeavoring  to  speak  in  a  cer- 
tain sense  without  a  subject,  and  I  should  violate  the  great  rule  of  modern  eloquence 
never  to  make  a  speech  unless  you  have  something  to  say,  therefore  I  can  only  reiterate,  ap- 
prove, and  adopt  as  my  sentiments  what  has  been  so  satisfactorily  said. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — Having  exhausted  the  clergy,  we  still  have  some  representa- 
tives of  the  profession  of  teaching  among  us.     Let  us  hear  from  Nolen. 

Mr.  Nolen  : — I  am  a  very  humble  member  of  the  profession.  I  have  kept  closer  perhaps 
to  the  academic  work  than  almost  any  other  member  of  the  class.  My  work  is  wholly  teach- 
ing the  Greek  and  Latin.  I  was  struck  with  one  remark  made  by  Dodd,  and  that  is  that  we 
are  just  beginning  to  be  men,  to  act  our  parts  as  men,  and  in  connection  with  that  remark,  I 
remember  a  speech  made  at  the  sixth  anniversary  by  our  friend  Wild.     He  said :    "When  we 

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came  together  at  our  third  anniversary  we  were  boys,  but  now  we  are  men ;  we  have  been  out 
in  the  world:  we  have  been  jostled  about,  and  now  we  come  back  men  at  our  sixth  anni- 
versary." I  think  we  have  learned  something  since  then.  I  came  across,  on  the  campus, 
an  old  fellow  who  asked  me,  "Are  you  one  of  the  older  graduates?"  I  told  him  perhaps  I 
might  be  called  so.  "Well,"  said  he,  "I  belong  to  the  class  of  1830.  I  was  looking  for 
somebody  in  my  Class,  and  I  cannot  find  anybody,  and  I  thought  you  looked  as  gray  as  any- 
body I  had  seen."  I  remember  that  Prof.  Woolsey  made  the  remark  once  that  he  wished 
he  might  be  his  own  grandson. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — It  may  be  true,  as  Turrell  says,  that  there  are  seven  thousand 
lawyers  in  the  City  of  New  York,  but  there  are  certainly  not  seven  thousand  as 
clean  cut  lawyers  as  we  have  here  in  this  room,  and  I  call  upon  Ernest  Stedman 
to  talk  to  us. 

Mr.  Stedman: — Mr.  Chairman.  I  cannot  agree  with  you  that  this  is  the  shank  of  the 
evening.  It  is  now  a  little  after  3  o'clock,  and  the  next  sawbones  who  speaks  here  will  cor- 
roborate the  statement  that  this  is  the  hour  of  the  night  when  the  human  system  is  at  its  low- 
est state  of  vitality.  I  am  inclined  to  agree  with  Spellman  in  what  he  said.  I  came  back  here 
because  I  delight  in  coming  back  here.  I  delight  in  the  old  friendships  that  we  formed  at 
Yale.  I  delight  in  the  associations  of  this  old  town,  in  the  old  buildings,  and  the  new  build- 
ings, and  I  think  our  class,  of  all  classes,  is  the  last  one  to  find  fault  with  the  iiew  buildings, 
and  I  hope  we  will  have  more  buildings.  I  would  propose  a  toast,  a  paraphrase  of  a  toast  that 
I  heard  a  student  say  last  night :  Here  is  a  toast  to  the  old  buildings  that  are  spared !  Here  is 
a  toast  to  the  new  buildings  to  come. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — We  would  like  to  hear  from  Mr.  Chapman. 

Mr.  Ch.\pm.\n  :  It  is  almost  too  late  for  me  to  add  anything  to  what  the  rest  of  you 
have  said.  You  ask  me  how  I  have  been,  and  I  say  to  you  I  have  been  up,  down,  and 
all  around.  I  do  not  know  what  more  to  say  except  to  second  Andy  Swan's  motion  to 
adjourn. 

Mr.  Flanders: — We  would  like  to  hear  from  Mr.  Comstock. 

Mr.  Comstock  : — I  think  we  got  out  a  three-quarters  of  an  hour  speech  from  Andy  John- 
son once.  You  will  remember  he  came  out  with  the  two  words  "ad  eundem."  I  think  we  are 
in  that  condition  perhaps,  and  I  want  to  say  that  we  afe  pretty  nearly  through.  I  went  out 
from  the  College  with  a  reasonable  amount  of  Yale  spirit.  I  also  want  to  say  that  I  have 
inspired  my  own  family  to  that  extent  that  while  one  son  graduated  here  some  years  ago 
I  have  a  daughter  who  says  she  will  get  her  degree  of  A.  B.  here  yet.     I  will  say  that  1 

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have  enjoyed  the  reunion  as  well  as  the  others  we  have  had.     If  the  Class  goes  on   for 
the  next  five  years,  and  our  standard  is  raised  a  little  bit  higher,  what  will  we  be  then? 

Mr.  Flanders  : — To  one  member  of  this  class  every  member  of  the  Class  of 
'67  is  indebted,  and  that  is  to  Mr.  Wild,  of  New  Haven,  from  whom  we  wish  to 
hear. 

Mr.  Wild: — My  classmates,  this  has  been  a  delightful  reunion.  Tears  of  joy  come  to 
me,  and  prove  to  me  that  I  love  my  classmates  more  than  ever.  I  have  two  sons,  and  I  trust 
that  I  shall  live  to  see  them  graduate  from  Yale.  I  live  here  in  New  Haven,  and  I  hope  that 
my  life  will  be  spared  to  meet  you  here  five  years  hence.  I  am  proud  that  I  belong  to  '67. 
In  regard  to  the  pictures,  Mr.  Morse  has  the  addresses  of  the  class ;  if  those  who  want  them 
will  send  word  to  him  he  can  send  the  names  to  me.     The  price  will  be  $1  a  picture. 

Mr.  Flanders  : — George  Brainerd  will  now  speak  to  us.  The  best  part  of  the 
feast  is  kept  until  the  last. 

Mr.  Brainerd  : — Mr.  Chairman  and  classmates,  thank  you  for  the  very  kind  expression 
you  have  just  given  utterance  to  in  regard  to  myself.  It  is  certainly  a  great  pleasure  for  me 
to  be  present.  I  think  it  was  Prof.  Gibbs  who  said,  regarding  a  member  of  our  class, 
that  it  was  not  safe  for  him  if  he  washed  to  make  a  good  recitation  to  trust  to  the  inspiration 
of  the  occasion.  Now,  that  does  not  apply  to  our  meeting  to-night ;  there  is  certainly  inspira- 
tion enough  in  the  meeting  of  this  class  to  give  words  to  everyone.  It  is  too  late  to  enter 
largely  into  those  feelings  and  thoughts  which  naturally  arise,  but  to  look  into  the  eyes  and 
faces  of  my  classmates  here  is  one  of  the  pleasures  of  life.  It  is  one  of  the  pleasures  to  each 
one  of  us  here  that  we  have  been  associated  in  the  past  so  intimately  with  one  another.  The 
class  of  '67  has  certainly  made  a  mark  for  itself.  We  are  in  the  very  prime  of  manhood. 
We  may  look  forward  to  a  noble  activity  in  the  ordinarv  course  of  nature.  We  know  not 
how  long  for  any  individual,  but  the  progress  will  be  greater  in  the  future  than  in  the  past. 
Yale  College  has  a  great  place  in  our  lives.  It  always  will  have.  It  has  a  great  place  in  this 
country  as  an  educational  institution,  and  I  hope  that  the  spirit  which  has  pervaded  the  students 
here,  and  the  graduates  wherever  they  have  been,  will  still  continue  to  be  what  it  has  been 
in  the  past.  I  do  not  keep  in  touch  with  the  undergraduate  life  perhaps  as  much  as  some  of 
you  do,  but  I  hope  that  any  prediction  or  any  fear  that  there  shall  come  into  the  undergradu- 
ate of  this  institution  any  other  than  the  true  manly  democratic  spirit,  which  existed  in  our 
day,  will  prove  false.  Now.  it  is  indeed  a  noble  ambition  to  live  and  work  in  the  world.  It 
is  indeed  a  noble  ambition  to  do  that  which  shall  reflect  glory  and  honor  in  any  way  upon  this 
institution.  We  are  not  all  permitted  perhaps  to  take  any  specially  prominent  place,  but  we 
can  shine  with  some  borrowed  and  reflected  light.     I  am  sure  we  are  ever  ready  and  ever  joy- 

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ful  in  the  success  of  any  Yale  man,  and  when  we  hear  of  the  promotion  of  any  man  in  this 
institution  we  are  always  very  glad,  but  we  are  especially  glad  when  we  hear  that  that  man 
belongs  to  '67.    I  hope  it  will  be  my  privilege  to  meet  you  men  many  times  in  the  future. 


Mr.  Flanders  : — There  are  quite  a  number  of  men  in  our  class  who  have  been 
and  are  lawyers,  and  perhaps  more  who  have  been  and  are  business  men,  but  I 
think  that  there  are  few  men  who  have  been  business  men  and  lawyers  at  the  same 
time,  and  our  friend  and  classmate,  Tallman,  from  Hartford,  comes  under  that 
description,  having  made  a  success  in  his  life  work,  and  having  identified  himself 
with  the  institutions  of  that  city. 

Mr.  Tallman  : — When  a  committee  has  been  appointed  by  a  corporation,  and  it  has  per- 
formed its  functions,  it  is  usually  the  privilege  of  some  one  to  move  a  vote  of  thanks  upon  dis- 
solving or  discharging  that  committee.  I  feel  as  if  you,  my  classmates,  had  been  acting  as  a 
committee  of  the  whole  in  entertaining  myself  and  all  my  classmates  this  evening.  It  has 
been  my  privilege  to  attend  all  the  class  meetings.  I  can  truly  say  that  I  have  enjoyed  this 
meeting  fully  as  much  as  any  of  them.  The  one  thing  which  has  added  to  the  pleasure  of 
this  meeting  to  myself,  and  I  have  no  doubt  to  each  of  you,  has  been  the  presence  of  those 
who  have  never  met  with  us  before.  You  may  remember,  some  of  you.  at  the  quindecennial 
meeting  when  we  heard  Chairman  Collins,  whom  we  all  loved,  and  who  in  his  short  life  added 
much  to  the  fame  of  '67.  and  whose  memory  will  always  be  dear  to  the  class  of  '67,  speak  of 
those  members  of  the  class  who  were  absent,  and  who  wanted  to  be  with  us.  but  who  were 
detained  for  various  causes  owing  to  the  ill  success  they  had  met  with  in  life,  and  who  on 
that  account  did  not  want  to  be  with  those  who  had  been  more  successful.  The  period  of 
thirty  years  is  long  or  short  according  to  the  point  of  view  that  we  get  of  it.  I  have  been 
reminded  to-night  of  the  class  of  'zi  when  they  celebrated  their  thirtieth  anniversary  on  the 
eve  of  our  graduation.  My  father  was  a  member  of  that  class,  and  at  his  invitation  I  accom- 
panied him  to  a  meeting  at  Prof.  Goodrich's.  Who  is  there  of  us  to-night  that  feels  that  we 
are  old,  that  feels  that  we  have  lost  any  portion  of  our  usefulness  in  life? 

Mr.  Morse  : — I  just  want  to  say  one  word  to  those  who  have  never  before  at- 
tended a  class  meeting.  I  want  to  ask  each  of  them  if  they  do  not  think  it  is  worth 
while  to  come  to  the  next  meeting.     (All  assented.) 

Mr.  Allen  stated  that  Mr.  Newlands  had  sent  a  telegram  to  the  effect  that  he 
expected  to  be  here,  but  could  not  get  away  from  Washington. 

The  Class  then  sang  "Auld  Lang  Syne,"  and  the  meeting  adjourned  at  5 
A.  M. 

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ALUMNI  MEETING, 

Alumni  Hall,  New  Haven,  June  29th,  JO  A.  M.,  J  897. 


ADDRESS  OF  REV.  DR.  DAVID  J.  BURRELL.  ^ 

I  wanted,  Mr.  President,  to  hear  more  of  the  older  graduates  sound  the  praises  of  their 
classes  before  I  should  take  the  opportunity  to  say  anything  about  the  Class  of  1867.  It  is  a 
great  honor  to  be  born  in  New  Haven.  There  is  no  city  in  the  world  like  New  Haven,  with 
its  elms ;  there  is  no  university  like  Yale,  and  there  is  no  Class  that  ever  went  out  of  Yale 
like  1867.  I  am  sure  if  all  these  Classes  speak,  as  my  friend  Dr.  Chapin  spoke  of  the 
Class  of  1847,  it  will  take  the  heart  out  of  the  younger  graduates  who  are  here.  I  felt  that 
way,  gentlemen,  when  he  was  speaking  of  his  old  Class,  but  they  are  not  comparable,  gentle- 
men, with  the  members  of  the  Class  of  1867.  Every  one  knows  of  the  Class  of  1867.  There 
was  only  one  thing  in  Yale  that  we  were  not  thoroughly  equipped  with  when  we  left  Yale  Col- 
lege— we  were  not  properly  equipped  with  wind  instruments.  The  Class  of  1867  also  was  illus- 
trious for  two  or  three  things,  as  Dr.  Chapin  said  of  his.  The  Class  of  1867  was  illustrious — 
not  to  say  notorious — for  its  democratic  spirit.  We  were  all  in  the  Class  of 
1867  on  the  dead  level  of  calm  superiority.  There  were  no  leaders  among  us,  but  we  were  all 
fighting  for  the  leadership.  I  see  some  of  the  members  of  1867  who  have  been  fight- 
ing; for  leadership  ever  since.  There  was  Bishop  Vincent,  Wallace  Bruce  and  George 
Adee,  but  they  were  nobodies  when  we  were  in  College.  At  the  senior  elections  they  took 
the  names  of  the  whole  class  in  three  hats,  and  then  drew  out  forty-five  names.  I  am  not 
sure  that  that  was  not  a  better  plan  than  prevails  to  day.  I  am  quite  sure  they  got  better  men. 
.\nd  so  it  was  with  the  Townsends.  The  Faculty  then  just  put  in  the  names  of  the  whole 
class  and  drew  out  sixty-seven.  It  was  a  great  day  for  '67  when  the  President  announced 
the  Townsends.  That  is  the  way  the  Townsends  were  given  out.  There  never  was  such  a 
.scramble  for  leadership  in  any  class  in  Yale  or  anywhere  else.  There  was  never  anything 
like  it  until  the  combining  of  those  great  powers  of  Europe,  which  we  have  marked  to-day. 
Another  characteristic  of  1867  was  its  ambition.  We  were  all  fighting  for  honors  all  the  way 
through.  We  did  not  all  get  honors,  but  the  only  reason  was  that  there  were  not  honors 
enough  to  go  all  the  way  round.  We  were  pretty  much  all  of  us  defeated  for  something. 
Pretty  much  everybody  got  defeated  in  1867,  because  they  were  all  running.  We  had  a  tre- 
mendous democratic  spirit  in  our  Class.  The  old  practice  of  hazing  died  out,  I  think,  with  us. 
There  was  another  practice  that  came  in  after  hazing  went  out.  It  was  called  "heeling." 
That  is  the  very  spirit  of  Uriah  Heep.  I  wish  the  young  men  would  protest  against  it.  If 
the  young  men  of  Yale  had  some  of  the  democratic  spirit  of  hazing  they  would  not  bow  the 
knee  to  any  man.  God  deliver  the  fellows  of  Yale  from  heeling.  One  thing  more,  and  I 
suppose  then  my  time  will  be  up.  Our  boys  were  characterized  by  the  Yale  spirit.  We  came 
before  new  Yale,  but  we  ushered  it  in,  and  there  was  never  a  class  more  loyal  than   1867. 

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The  old  Yale  spirit  pumps  against  our  ribs  more  than  it  ever  did  before  when  we  come  back 
to  celebrate  our  thirtieth  anniversary;  1867  has  Supreme  Court  Judges,  Senators  and  Repre- 
sentatives. We  have  Consular  representatives;  we  have  distinguished  ministers  and  bishops 
and  doctors,  so  many  that  time  will  not  permit  even  to  mention  any  of  them.  We  are  thinking 
about  the  boat  race.  I  want  you  to  think  about  the  influence  of  our  class  on  boating.  Nothing 
but  modesty  prevents  me  from  going  into  particulars.  I  want  to  keep  my  class  in  the  back- 
ground as  much  as  possible.  (Laughter.)  We  are  talking  about  the  Bob  Cook  stroke.  God 
bless  the  Bob  Cook  stroke  and  Bob  Cook.  That  is  a  good  prayer  for  any  Yale  minister  to 
utter.  We  don't  care  about  the  country  colleges.  We  came  in  all  right  at  both  races.  We 
didn't  import  any  boat.  We  didn't  import  a  stroke.  W^e  didn't  import  a  trainer.  We  didn't 
import  a  college  cheer,  "'Rah,  'rah,  'rah,  Yale;  God  save  the  Queen."  We  simply 
gave  a  good  Yale  cheer,  but  we  got  there  before  Harvard  did.  If  Mr. 
Lehman  is  going  to  receive  a  degree  from  Harvard  I  want  to  nominate  now  a  man  who 
has  had  a  more  beneficent  and  gentlemanly  influence  on  Yale  athletics  than  anyone  else,  that 
modest  member  of  'd"]  who  stands  behind  Bob  Cook,  George  A.  Adee,  for  a  title  one  of  these 
days.  (Applause.)  I  suppose  I  ought  to  sit  down  now,  but  not  without  speaking  a  word 
more  about  our  Class.  I  heard  of  a  man  who  was  speaking  of  Omnipotence,  and  he  told  of 
how  Omnipotence  was  able  not  only  to  do  great  things,  but  to  stoop  to  the  most  minute  par- 
ticulars. The  minister  said :  "He  made  the  grass  of  the  fields ;  then  he  made  Behemoth ;  then 
he  made  the  cataract,  the  mountains,  the  rivers  and  the  brooks  to  go  babbling  by;  he  made 
man,  he  made  me,  and  when  he  made  me  he  made  a  daisy."  (Cheers.)  That  is  what  I  was 
going  to  say  of  the  Class  of  1867.     That  is  all. 


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"BIOGRAPHIES 

of 

GRADUATES 

CLASS  OF  SIXTY-SEVEN 

YALE 


3(pte — The  star  (*)  prefixed  to  a  name  indicates  a  deceased  member 


"We  started  when  the  fields  were  bright, 
And  shadows  all  behind  us  lay ; 
From  noontide  now,  till  fading  light, 
The  shadows  fall  the  other  way." 

— Bruce. 


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*ARTHUR  HERMAN  ADAMS. 

*Arthur  Herman  Adams,  eldest  son  of  Herman  S.  and  Sarah  Maria  (Brooks)  Adams, 
was  born  at  Florence,  Ohio,  November  24th,  1847.  Died  November  24th,  1879,  en  route  to 
Japan.  He  entered  the  preparatory  department  of  the  Delaware  University  in  Ohio,  and 
remained  there  three  years,  finishing  the  Sophomore  year  of  the  regular  course.  He  then 
transferred  his  college  connections  to  Yale,  and  entered  the  class  of  '67  at  the  beginning  of 
Junior  year  in  the  Fall  of  1865. 

His  father  was  a  druggist  in  Sandusky,  Ohio,  for  many  years.  Removing  to  Cleveland. 
Ohio,  in  the  early  seventies,  he  became  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Adams  &  Fay,  importers  and 
manufacturers  of  inks. 

At  the  time  of  his  graduation  he  was  undecided  as  to  his  future  calling,  and  he  spent 
the  first  two  years  as  a  teacher  of  Natural  Science  in  the  Delaware  Literary  Institute  at 
Franklin,  New  York.  He  then  entered  the  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  where  he  remained 
during  the  years  1869- 1872. 


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During  the  years  1872- 1874  he  attended  the  Yale  Medical  College,  and  at  the  same  time 
taught  in  Gen.  Russell's  School,  New  Haven,  Conn.  After  completing  his  course  at  the 
Yale  Medical  School  he  sailed  October  31st,  1874,  from  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  for  Japan,  as 
a  Medical  Missionary  of  the  A.  B.  C.  F.  M.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  had  been  laboring 
for  several  years  both  as  a  Missionary  and  as  a  physician  at  Osaka,  Japan;  was  the 
head  of  a  benevolent  dispensary  and  the  backbone  of  a  drug  store;  was  also  Treasurer  of 
the  Mission.  In  a  letter  received  from  fiim  in  1877  by  the  Secretary  he  wrote  that  he  was 
then  stationed  at  Kioto,  Japan ;  that  he  had  yet  to  own  to  himself  any  share  in  the  decrease 
of  his  patients,  but  that  he  believed  that  he  was  attaining  a  reputation  that  would  in  time  tell 
for  the  advancement  of  Truth  and  Righteousness  and  Christ. 

Soon  after  his  graduation  on  August  31st.  1874.  he  married  and  with  his  wife  went  to 
Japan,  and  the  two  labored  together  in  the  missionarj'  field  until  June,  1878,  when  owing 
to  his  wife's  health  he  temporarily  left  Japan  and  took  her  to  Southern  California.  It  was 
just  after  leaving  her  there  and  on  his  return  to  Japan  in  the  Steamer  Ciiy  of  Pekin  that  he 
died,  at  the  age  of  thirty-two,  on  November  24th,  1879  (his  birthday),  of  typhoid  fever, 
which  he  had  contracted  in  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

In  a  letter  from  one  of  the  missionaries  to  Dr.  Adams'  parents  appears  the  following: 
"Dr.  Adams  was  beloved  by  us  all  of  every  mission,  and  had  a  great  influence  through  the 
Japanese  physicians  for  the  advancement  of  Christ's  Kingdom.  God  has  highly  honored  you 
that  He  has  permitted  3'ou  to  give  such  a  son  to  such  a  cause." 

Anothrr  states:  "As  a  physician  he  won  for  himself  an  enviable  reputation  for  wisdom 
and  skill,  and,  above  that,  he  took  hold  of  our  hearts  when  he  came  into  our  families  with 
an  inexplicable  power.     He  was  peculiarly  dear  to  every  member  of  the  Osaka  Station." 

Another,  writing,  says :  "This  dear  young  servant  of  God  had  started  on  a  career  of  useful- 
ness which,  if  only  prolonged,  would  have  made  him  eminent,  ranking  him  among  the  fore- 
most of  missionaries — those  foremost  men  of  the  Church  of  Christ.  He  had  the  intellectual 
abilities  and  culture,  the  business  and  social  tact,  the  rare  enthusiasm  that  laughs  at  difficulties 
and  the  consecration  which  gives  everything  to  Christ  and  the  upbuilding  of  His  own  king- 
dom in  a  chosen  field,  which  makes  the  man  of  mark,  whether  at  home  or  abroad." 

He  married  on  August  31st,  1874,  at  Stevensville,  Fa.,  Miss  Sarah  C.  Thomas,  daughter 
of  Rev.  Mr.  Thomas,  and  had  two  children. 

CHILDREN. 

Sarah,  born  Osaka,  Japan.  March  13th.  1877;  died  Stevensville,  Pa.,  February  21st,  1883. 

Arthur  Herman,  born  Nordhoff,  Cal.,  August  8th,  1879. 

.Arthur  Herman  studied  for  two  years,  1895-1896.  in  the  Lycee  Jansen  de  Saille  of  Paris, 
France.  He  graduated  in  1897,  from  the  Lawrenceville  Preparatory  School,  New  Jersey,  and 
is  now  a  student  at  Princeton,  being  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1901.  He  is  in  his  eighteenth 
year.    His  mother  resides  at  Wyalusing,  Pa. 

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ROBERT  HENRY  ALISON. 

Robert  Henry  Alison,  son  of  Robert  Alison,  M.  D.  (University  of  Pennsj'hania,  1819), 
and  Elizabeth  (Aitken)  Alison,  was  born  in  Jennerville,  Chester  County,  Pa..  June  8th,  1845. 
He  was  prepared  for  College  at  the  West  Chester  Academy,  West  Chester,  Pa.,  at  Peekskill 
Military  Academy  and  at  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  under  a  private  tutor.  He  entered  '66  in  the  Sum- 
mer of  '62;  he  left  that  Class  at  end  of  second  term,  Sophomore  year,  and  entered  '67  at 
beginning  of  Sophomore  year,  graduating  with  the  class. 

His  father,  Dr.  Robert  Alison,  was  the  son  of  Dr.  Francis  Alison,  Jr.  (University  of 
Pennsylvania,  1770,  Department  of  Arts),  a  surgeon  during  the  Revolution  and  grandson  of 
Rev.  Francis  Alison,  M.  A.  (Hon.  Yale,  1755.  Coll.  N.  J.,  1756.  D.  D.,  Glasgow,  Scotland. 
1/56). 

Elizabeth  Aitken,  his  mother,  was  a  daughter  of  John  and  Jane  Aitken,  and  Jane  Aitken 
was  a  daughter  of  Captain  James  and  Sarah  (Gettys)   MacDowell.     They  were  all  residents 


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of  Chester  County,  Pa.,  and  were  of  that  Scottish  people  which  came  from  the  North  of  Ire- 
land to  this  country  early  in  the  eighteenth  centurj'. 

The  subject  of  our  sketch  studied  medicine,  after  graduation,  at  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania, and  received  his  degree  on  March  13th,  1869.  Was  resident  physician  in  the  Penn- 
sylvania Hospital  from  j\Iay,  1871.  to  October,  1872;  Port  Physician  at  the  Port  of  Philadel- 
phia from  February,  1883.  to  November,  1884,  when  he  removed  to  Ardmore,  Montgomery 
County,  Pa.,  where  he  resides,  practicing  his  profession. 

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GEORGE  AUGUSTUS  ADEE. 

George  Augustus  Adee,  son  of  George  Townsend  and  Ellen  Louise  (Henry) 
Adee,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  April  nth,  1847.  He  fitted  for  College  at  the  preparatory 
School  of  Brainerd  T.  Harrington,  Westchester,  N.  Y.,  and  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of 
'67  in  the  fall  of  1863. 

George  Townsend  Adee.  his  father,  was  a  dry-goods  merchant,  being  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Adee,  Timpson  &  Co.,  New  York  City.  He  afterwards,  in  the  year  1869,  became 
Vice-President  of  the  Bank  of  Commerce  at  31  Nassau  Street,  New  York  City, 

He  is  a  descendant  of  John  Adee,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Rye,  Westchester  County. 
N.  Y. ;  also  of  Henry  Townsend,  one  of  the  Townsend  brothers,  the  original  settlers  of  the 
town  of  Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island.  They  had  been  driven  out  of  Massachu.setts  ibout  1640 
by  the  Puritans,  who  denied  them  liberty  to  preach  and  live  according  to  their  religious  con- 
victions.    His  grandfather,  Philip  Henry,  was  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812. 


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His  uncle,  Alvey  Adee,  Yale  1821,  was  Fleet  Surgeon  in  the  U.  S.  Navy  for  many 
years  until  his  death. 

Adee  was  a  prominent  athlete  while  in  College,  being  bow-oar  on  our  Class  Crew,  Cap- 
tain of  the  Glyuna  Boat  Club,  bow-oar  of  the  Glyuna  Shell  Crew  that  rowed  the  Harbor 
course  in  the  fastest  time  on  record.  Fleet  Captain  of  the  Yale  Navy,  Secretary  of  the  Yale 
Baseball  Club,  pitcher  on  our  Class  nine,  winner  and  holder  of  the  Champion  Single  Sculling 
Cup,  and  bow-oar  on  the  University  Crew.  Socially  he  was  very  popular  with  his  fellows, 
being  one  of  the  nine  "cocks"  or  spoonmen  of  his  class. 

No  member  of  any  Class  that  ever  graduated  from  Yale  has  been  more  devoted  to  pure 
athletics  than  he  has,  and  no  one  has  done  more  to  raise  the  standard  of  Yale  in  her  contests. 
He  stands  out  prominently  in  this  respect. 

After  graduation  he  resided  in  Westchester  until  1885.  when  he  removed  to  Bartow, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  still  resides. 

He  graduated  from  the  Columbia  Law  School  in  May,  1870.  and  since  that  time  has  been 
engaged  in  the  care  of  estates  and  the  practice  of  law. 

For  many  years  he  devoted  his  best  efforts  at  considerable  personal  sacrifice  toward  help- 
ing Yale  win  honorable  victory  in  her  athletic  contests.  Since  1895,  however,  the  accumu- 
lating pressure  of  private  affairs  and  business  and  professional  duties  have  absorbed  his  time 
and  compelled  him  to  give  up  further  active  participation  in  the  work,  councils  and  re- 
sponsibilities of  College  athletics,  after  about  one-third  of  a  century  of  arduous  service.  But, 
although  no  longer  an  active  worker,  he  maintains  a  lifelong  interest  in  everything  pertain- 
ing to  Yale,  not  forgetting  her  athletics. 

He  has  been  president  of  the  University  Athletic  Club,  1892-1896;  Vice-President  Yale 
Alumni  Association.  1893-1894.  and  President  of  Yale  Alumni  Association,  1897-1898;  Chair- 
man Building  Committee.  Yale  Gymnasium ;  Director  Yale  Alumni  University  Fund  Asso- 
ciation. 1895-1897;  Member  Governing  Board  Country  Club,  Westchester,  1888-1893. 

He  is  the  same  genial,  courteous  gentleman  that  he  was  while  in  College  (and  the 
Class  thinks  he  never  was  out  of  College)  and  one  of  the  best  all-round  athletes  in  his  time 
that  Yale  ever  produced. 

He  was  married  on  December  6th.  1871.  to  Adelaide  Palmer  Stanton,  of  Stonington. 
Conn.,  a  Puritan  girl  of  direct  descent  from  Thomas  Stanton,  an  English  officer,  engineer 
and  interpreter,  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Stonington.  Conn. ;  also  from  John  Alden  and 
Priscilla  Mullins,  of  the  Mayflower.  Her  uncle.  Capt.  Nathaniel  B.  Palmer,  discovered 
Palmer's  Land  in  the  Antarctic  Circle. 


Ellen  Louise,  born  September  21st,  1872,  Westchester,  N.  Y. 
George  Townsend,  born  January  4th,  1874,  Stonington,  Conn. 
Charles  Stanton,  born  April  i8th.  1875.  Westchester.  N.  Y. 
Juliet  Stanton,  born  January  3d.  1881.  Westchester,  N.  Y. 


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George  Townsend  prepared  for  Yale  at  B.  T.  Harrington's  School,  Westchester,  and 
graduated  at  Yale  in  1895.  He  is  now  in  the  Banking  House  of  Cuyler,  Morgan  &  Co.,  New 
York  City.  He  played  on  the  'Varsity  football  teams  of  1893-1894  and  1894- 1895  as  quarter- 
back, and  was  President  of  the  Yale  University  Boat  Club  in  1895. 

In  the  Spring  of  1898,  during  the  Spanish  War,  he  volunteered  as  a  private  in  Troop  A, 
N.  Y.  Vol.  Cavalry,  and  served  in  Porto  Rico  in  a  picked  detail  from  that  troop,  attached  to 
Troop  B,  U.  S.  Reg.  Cavalry,  under  Gen.  Guy  Henry  until  hostilities  ceased.  He  was  after- 
wards taken  very  ill  with  typhoid  fever  in  Northern  Porto  Rico,  but  was  brought  North  on 
the  Relief,  and  recovered  in  New  York  later. 

Charles  Stanton  prepared  for  Yale  at  B.  T.  Harrington's  School,  and  also  at  the  Hotch- 
kiss  School,  Lakeville,  Conn.  He  entered  the  Class  of  1897,  but  left  voluntarily,  in  his  Junior 
year,  to  go  into  business,  and  is  now  stock  clerk  with  the  banking  firm  of  Redmond,  Kerr  & 
Co.,  41  Wall  Street,  New  York  City. 

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♦BEVERLY    ALLEN. 

♦Beverly  Allen,  son  of  Beverly,  Sr.,  and  Penelope  (Pope)  Allen,  was  born  at  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  October  13th,  1844,  and  died  January  26,  1876.  of  consumption.  His  father,  Beverly 
Allen,  was  a  graduate  of  Princeton  College.  He  adopted  the  practice  of  law  as  his  profession 
and  followed  it  until  his  death.  He  resided  in  St.  Louis.  His  paternal  grandfather  was 
Jedediah  Allen,  a  merchant  of  Richmond,  Va. 

His  n^.other,  Penelope  Pope's,  ancestry  dates  back  to  the  days  of  the  English  kings. 
Mabel  Hacklakenden,  who  afterwards  married  Governor  John  Haynes  of  Massachusetts,  was 
the  first  to  emigrate  to  this  country.  From  her  came  the  American  descendants.  His  mother 
was  a  sister  of  the  late  Major  General  John  Pope.  U.  S.  A. 

Beverly  was  very  popular  in  College,  being  one  of  the  nine  "cocks"  or  spoonmen  of  the 
class. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  Merchants'  National  Bank  of  St.  Louis,  where  he  was 
employed  until  his  death. 


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A  classmate  writes  as  follows:  '"It  was  the  day  preceding  our  first  gathering  as  a  Class 
when  I  met  Beverly  Allen;  both  hailing  from  the  same  city,  strangers  until  that  moment, 
friends  always  after.  To-day  I  can  feel  the  strength  of  his  hand  when  he  grasped  mine  at 
our  meeting.  Those  who  have  shaken  hands  with  him  once  will  never  forget  it.  Nothing 
could  be  more  typical  of  his  character.  Few  in  College  had  an  intimate  acquaintance  witn 
him.  He  was  not  at  all  forward  in  showing  the  warmer  side  of  his  heart,  so  that  by  many 
he  was  credited  with  a  reserve  and  exclusiveness  which  did  not  belong  to  him.  But,  as  a 
fuller  knowledge  of  him  grew,  the  unfolding  of  those  traits  which  made  him  especially  be- 
loved was  exceedingly  beautiful.  He  was  not  a  brilliant  scholar,  but  he  filled  a  place  in  the 
Class,  and  in  the  lives  of  many,  few  can  ever  occupy.  So  true  was  he  to  his  friends  and  his 
Class  that  his  fidelity  and  devotion  to  them  might  be  called  almost  his  religion.  In  the 
career  of  his  classmates  he  had  ever  the  liveliest  interest,  and  during  the  latter  days  of  his 
life  he  frequently  alluded  to  this  and  that  one  whose  name  would  come  up  in  conversation,  in 
the  kindliest  and  tenderest  manner.  His  whole  life  was  like  a  quiet  running  stream  that  never 
ran  dry  nor  ever  overflowed  its  banks,  never  became  stormy,  and  was  always  active  enough 
to  show  its  power.  He  reflected  in  the  most  admirable  manner  the  changing  moods  of  those 
he  mingled  with,  so  that  he  seemed  to  have  an  inexhaustible  supply  of  sympathy  on  which 
all  might  draw  and  be  filled.  Almost  immediately  on  leaving  College  he  entered  the  Mer- 
chants' Bank  of  St.  Louis  as  teller,  which  place  he  filled  until  compelled  to  retire  by  illness. 
Just  preceding  'Triennial'  he  married  the  daughter  of  William  Price,  Esq.,  whom  he  leaves 
a  widow,  with  two  bright  boys.  When  told  he  could  not  recover,  he  turned  to  his  aunt,  Mrs. 
Yeatman,  and  said :  'Don't  mourn  for  me ;  I  only  care  for  my  darlings.'  He  said  he  was  not 
afraid  to  die,  but  was  agonized  at  the  thought  of  leaving  his  little  children  and  myself.  A  few 
weeks  before  he  died  he  united  with  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  received  the  Holy  Communion. 
He  loved  Yale,  and  I  have  often  heard  him  say  his  happiest  life  was  spent  at  College.  To 
have  his  eldest  boy.  whom  he  idolized,  spend  four  years  at  Yale  was  his  highest  ambition. 

"It  was  a  cold,  dismal  day  when  we  carried  him  to  Bellefontaine.  The  trees  stood  up 
naked  and  bare  against  a  lead  colored  sky.  The  dry  leaves  rustled  under  our  feet  as  we 
placed  him  in  the  grave,  and  the  clods  rattling  down  upon  him  awakened  in  our  hearts  mem- 
ories of  the  bright,  active,  warm-hearted  fellow  whose  quick  step  we  heard  so  often  in  the 
College  yard  and  whose  rap  on  our  door  was  so  welcome.  Past  and  Present  came  face  to 
face,  and  melted  us  to  tears  as  we  turned  and  left  in  the  ground  that  sincere,  genuine  gentle- 
man, Beverly  Allen." 

He  married  Mary  V.  Price,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  June  7th,  1870.  She  died  January  nth. 
1897. 

CHILDREN. 

Beverly,  Jr.,  bom  April  20th,  1872,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
William  Price,  born  April  nth.  1874,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Both  his  sons  are  in  business  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

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CORNELIUS  LANSING  ALLEN. 


CoRNFXius  Lansing  Allen,  son  of  Cornelius  Lansing  Allen  (Princeton,  1818)  and  Sarah 
Hester  (Russell)  Allen,  was  born  at  Salem,  N.  Y..  August  7th,  1847.  He  fitted  for  College 
at  the  Washington  Academy  under  J.  A.  McFarland.  and  entered  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63.  His 
father  was  by  profession  a  lawyer,  having  been  District  Attorney  of  Washington  County 
for  nine  years,  from  1851-1859.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  New 
York  State  in  1867.  His  grandfather,  David  Allen,  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Gideon  Allen, 
a  Lieutenant  of  the  British  Army  during  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne.  His  grandmother  was  a 
de.scendant  of  the  early  Hollanders  as  far  back  as  1720. 

He  graduated  from  the  Albany  Law  School  in  1869,  and  for  a  short  time  was  engaged 
in  journalism.     In  1871  he  commenced  the  practice  of  law,  which  he  continued  till  1887. 

During  that  period  he  held  the  office  of  Special  County  Judge  for  three  consecutive  terms 
of  four  years  each.     Also  was  local  Magistrate  for  the  same  length  of  time.     For  six  years, 

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from  1881-1887,  was  candidate  at  different  times  for  the  office  of  Supervisor,  District  Attorney 
and  Surrogate. 

On  the  1st  of  January,  1887,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Lascelles  Manufacturing  Co., 
in  Salem,  N.  Y.,  who  are  engaged  in  manufacturing  soaps  and  perfumery,  having  branch 
houses  in  New  York,  Philadelphia,  Bo,ston,  Chicago,  Omaha,  Charleston,  S.  C,  New  Orleans 
and  Liverpool,  England.  For  the  past  year  or  so  he  has  been  suffering  from  nervous  prostra- 
tion, which  obliged  him  to  give  up  all  active  work  and  seek  treatment  in  a  sanitarium.  At 
last  accounts  he  was  much  improved. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Ada  L.  Russell,  at  Salem,  N.  Y.,  January  13th,  1869,  and  has  had 
seven  children,  of  whom  four  are  living. 

CHILDREN. 

Christine  Lansing,  born  October  20th,  1869,  Salem,  N.  Y. ;  died  July  i8th,  1890. 

Kate  Vanderheyden,  born  June  20th,  1871,  Salem,  N.  Y. 

Edward  Cornelius,  born  July  14th,  1872,  Salem,  N.  Y. 

Elizabeth,  born  November  28th,  1874,  Salem,  N.  Y. ;  died  October  6th,  1881. 

David  Russell,  born  May  29th,  1877.  Salem,  N.  Y. 

C.  L.  Allen.  Jr.,  born-January  8th,  1881,  Salem,  N.  Y. ;  died  April  2nd,  1882. 

liella  v.,  born  July  ist,'  1883,  Salem,  N.  Y. ;  died  May  5th,  1886. 

Constance  Woolstorr,  born  November  25th.  1890,  Salem,  N.  Y. 

Edward  Cornelius  is  engineer  of  ''The  Salem  Shirt  Factory ;"  he  married,  November  25th, 
1891,  Emma  E.  Stay,  of  Salem,  N.  Y. 

Kate  Vanderheyden  was  married  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  April  5th.  1896,  to  Wilmer'  S.  Spicer,  of 
Fort  Edward,  N.  Y. 

All  the  children  were  educated  at  the  Salem  Washington  Academy,  though  they  did  not 
graduate. 

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JAMES  MONROE  ALLEN. 

James  Monroe  Allen,  son  of  John  and  Lavina  (Teel)  Allen,  was  born  at  Bethlehem, 
Ohio,  March  14th,  1844. 

Both  his  paternal  and  maternal  ancestors  settled  in  the  States  of  New  Jersey,  Pennsyl- 
vania and  Maryland  before  the  Revolution.  His  father  was  employed  in  the  shipping  business. 
He  fitted  for  College  under  George  Howland  at  the  Chicago  High  School  and  entered  '67  in 
the  Fall  of  '63.  After  graduation  he  resided  at  Aurora,  111.,  until  January,  1870,  when  he 
removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  Bar.  He  then  traveled 
South  into  Texas  and  Arkansas,  finally  settling  at  Carthage,  Jasper  County,  Missouri,  where 
he  practiced  law  until  December,  1874,  when  he  removed  to  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  where  he  has 
continued  ever  since  engaged  in  his  profession.  From  January  ist,  1880,  to  1883,  he  was  one 
of  the  Judges  of  the  Superior  Court.  He  is  at  present  attorney  for  the  Bank  of  California, 
and  has  a  large  and  lucrative  practice.  -He  married  in  San  Francisco,  R.  Roe,  December  29th. 
1881. 


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CHILDREN. 

Harriet  Elizabeth,  born  October  28th,  1882,  San  Francisco. 
Ruth  Marie,  born  February  2nd,  1884,  San  Francisco. 
Francis  Frederick,  born  Januar>'  ist,  1886,  San  Francisco. 
James  Kirke.  born  March  23rd,  1889,  San  Francisco. 
Clara  Adelaide,  born  April  loth,  1890,  San  Francisco. 

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*THOMAS  ALLYN. 


*Thomas  Allyn,  son  of  Hon.  Timothy  M.  and  Susan  (Pratt)  Allyn,  was  born  at  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  January  2nd,  1845,  and  died  at  Bonn,  Germany,  in  August,  1882. 

He  fitted  for  College  in  the  Hartford  High  School  and  entered  the  Class  in  the  Fall  of 
1865. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  traveled  extensively  in  Germany,  Egypt  and  elsewhere. 
Returning  in  1869  he  entered  the  Harvard  Medical  School,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1872. 
He  then  returned  to  his  home  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  when  he  commenced  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession. In  the  Spring  of  1877  he  wrote  the  Secretary  that  "his  life  was  a  very  quiet  and 
uneventful  one ;"  that  for  over  a  year  he  had  been  more  or  less  of  an  invalid.  A  few  years 
later,  in  1879.  he  again  went  abroad  for  his  health,  and  the  Secretary  next  received  the  follow- 
ing notice  from  "The  Hartford  Courant"  of  October  21st,  1882: 

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DEATH   OF  A   SON  OF  THE  LATE  T.    M.   ALLYN. 

'"The  family  of  the  late  T.  M.  Allyn  has  received  information  of  the  death  of  a  son, 
Thomas  Allyn,  who  for  three  years  past  has  been  in  Europe.  No  particulars  have  been 
received  other  than  that  he  was  drowned  in  August. 

"At  the  time  of  the  death  of  T.  M.  Allyn,  letters  were  forwarded  to  Mr.  Allyn  in  care 
of  his  banker  in  Europe,  advising  him  of  his  father's  death,  and  requesting  his  return  to  this 
countr>  to  participate  in  the  disposition  of  the  estate.  No  replies  were  received.  It  now 
appears  that  the  proprietor  of  the  hotel  or  pension  where  he  lodged  did  not  know  of  the 
address  of  his  family.  Mr.  Allyn' s  effects  were  searched,  and  there  was  found  a  letter  from  a 
young  physician  of  this  city.  To  him  was  sent  a  letter  announcing  Mr.  Allyn's  death,  and 
requesting  the  recipient  to  advise  his  family  of  the  occurrence. 

"Mr.  Allyn  was  born  in  this  city  and  was  about  S3  3'ears  of  age.  He  was  graduated  at 
Yale  in  the  Class  of  '67  and  entered  the  Medical  Department  of  Harvard  College,  where  he 
was  graduatet;  in  1872.  After  graduation  he  remained  in  this  city  for  several  years.  His 
health  was  not  vigorous  and  he  went  to  Europe,  taking  as  a  companion  a  young  physician,  who 
returned  to  America  a  year  or  more  ago.     The  deceased  was  a  bachelor. 

"The  death  of  Mr.  Allyn  leaves  the  estate  of  his  father,  appraised  at  a  million  and  a  half, 
to  be  divided  between  Mrs.  Allyn  and  the  three  surviving  sons,  Major  Allyn,  of  Chicago; 
Mr.  Alexander  Allyn.  who  has  an  extensive  farm  in  Wisconsin,  and  Mr.  Robert  Allyn,  of  this 
city." 

The  Secretary  wrote  Mr.  Robert  Allyn.  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  for  further  particulars  in 
regard  to  the  death  of  his  brother,  but  received  no  answer. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa,  Alpha  Delta  Phi. 


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FRANK   LEE   BALDWIN. 


Frank  Lee  Baldwin,  son  of  Pomeroy  and  Clara  A.  (Miller)  Baldwin,  was  born 
at  Massillon,  Ohio,  July  19th,  1846.  He  is  in  the  seventh  generation  of  descent  from  Na- 
thaniel Baldwin,  who  emigrated  from  Cholesbury,  Warwickshire,  England,  before  1639,  to 
Milford,  Conn.     Some  of  his  descendants  settled  early  in  Goshen,  Litchfield  County,  Conn. 

His  father  settled  at  Massillon,  and  was  employed  as  a  merchant  in  the  Massillon  Rolling 
Mill  Company.  His  mother  was  of  German  descent.  His  early  education  was  obtained  in 
the  public  schools  of  Massillon,  Ohio.  The  first  two  years  of  his  college  life  were  spent 
at  the  Western  Reserve  College,  Hudson,  Ohio.  He  entered  the  Junior  Class  at  Yale  in  1865. 
graduating  with  the  Class  in  1867.  After  graduation  he  at  once  began  the  study  of  law  with 
Alexander  Bierce,  of  Canton,  and  for  several  months  was  a  student  in  the  office  of  Ranney 
&  Boiton,  of  Cleveland.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  at  Canton.  April  26th.  1869,  and  soon 
after  opened  an  office  at  Massillon,  where  he  has  since  continued  the  practice  of  the  law. 

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In  ^larch,  1878,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Mr.  Anson  Pease,  under  the  name  of 
Pease  &  Baldwin,  which  continued  until  Mr.  Pease  became  a  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Pleas,  February  9th,  1882.  This  partnership  was  renewed  February  9th,  1892,  when  he  left 
the  bench,  with  Otto  E.  Young,  a  former  student  of  law  under  Judge  Pease — the  firm  name 
being  Pease,  Baldwin  &  Young.  After  the  death  of  Judge  Pease,  on  December  i6th,  1896,  he 
continued  the  practice  of  the  law  under  the  name  of  Baldwin  &  Young. 

Mr.  Baldwin  has  been  in  many  important  cases,  but  his  inclinations  never  led  him  into 
the  trial  of  causes.  He  has  been  more  an  office  lawyer,  dealing  with  documents,  and  has  had 
more  to  do  with  the  preparation  of  cases  for  trial,  with  the  adjustment  of  differences,  with 
the  settlement  of  estates  and  with  commercial  and  financial  transactions.  In  many  cases  he 
has  acted  as  referee  in  matters  involving  long  and  intricate  accountings.  He  is  always  de- 
liberate in  judgment,  cautious  and  conservative,  and  having  once  formed  an  opinion  or  out- 
lined a  course  of  action,  he  holds  to  it  most  firmly.  He  lived  with  his  mother,  to  whom  he 
was  devotedly  attached,  until  her  death,  January  loth,  1892. 

On  June  28th,  1890,  he  married  Annie  J.  Steese,  only  daughter  of  Dr.  Isaac  Steese,  for 
many  years  a  prominent  banker  at  Massillon.     They  have  no  children. 

COLLEGE   SOCIETIES,    HONORS,   RANK. 

Linonia,  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Honorary  Wolf's  Head  1895,  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  High 
Oration. 


HENRY  BEACH  BEARD. 


Henry  Beach  Beard,  son  of  James  and  Caroline  (Wood)  Beard,  was  born  at  Hunt- 
ington, Conn.,  January  25th,   1844. 

He  entered  the  Class  of  '66  and  left  it  Sophomore  year,  entering  '67  the  beginning  of  the 
Junior  year,  and  graduating  with  that  Class.  His  father  was  a  farmer,  as  was  also  his 
grandfather  and  great-grandfather  before  him.  He  lived  in  Huntington,  Fairfield  County, 
Conn.,  the  original  ancestry  of  the  family  having  emigrated  from  England  in  1640  and  settled 
in  Stratford,  Conn. 

The  maternal  ancestry  were  from  Danbury,  Conn.  Since  graduation  he  has  lived  at 
Minneapolis,  Minn.  He  spent  the  first  four  winters  after  graduation  in  the  Theological  Semi- 
nary at  New  Haven,  spending  his  summers  in  Minneapolis.  His  health  being  poor,  he  was 
unable  to  pursue  his  chosen  profession,  and  finding  he  required  more  active  outdoor  life,  he 
engaged  in  business. 

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The  greater  part  of  his  life  has  been  spent  in  the  Insurance  and  Real  Estate  business,  con- 
sisting chiefly  in  buying  city  property  and  increasing  its  market  value  by  improvements. 

He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  June  23d,  1869,  to  Sarah  R.  Reed,  and  has  two 
children. 

CHILDREN. 

Harry  W.,  born  August  19th,  1872,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Minnie  B.,  born  April  25th,    1883.   Minneapolis,   Minn. 

His  son,  who  is  now  25  years  of  age,  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Northwestern  Preparatory 
School,  in  Minneapolis,  but  concluded  to  enter  upon  a  business  career.  He  is  now  Cashier 
of  the  Provident  Savings  Life  Assurance  Company  of  New  York  in  Minneapolis,  and  is  un- 
married. 

His  daughter  is  attending  the  Baldwin  Seminary  at  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

His  first  child,  a  son,  born  in  1871,  lived  only  a  few  days. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Brothers. 


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EUGENE  FRANCIS  BEECHER. 

Eugene  Francis  Beecher,  son  of  Edward  and  Isabella  Porter  (Jones)  Beecher  (Yale, 
1822),  was  born  at  Boston,  Mass.,  March  7th,  1846.  His  father,  Edward  Beecher,  was  the 
son  of  Lyman  Beecher,  the  celebrated  divine,  who  was  a  descendant  of  John  Beecher,  who 
came  over  in  the  Mayflower  and  settled  in  New  Haven  in  1640.  His  mother,  Isabella  Porter 
Jones,  belonged  to  the  Maine  branch  of  the  Porter  family,  and  was  a  niece  of  Rufus  King, 
first  minister  from  this  country  to  Great  Britain.  He  fitted  for  College  under  the  instruction 
of  his  father,  and  entered  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  two  years  in  the  preparatory  department  of  Knox  College, 
Galesburg,  Ills.  He  then  took  a  position  as  Assistant  Editor  of  the  "Brooklyn  Union,"  from 
1869-70.  He  then  went  into  partnership  with  a  Mr.  Feffers,  continuing  with  him  till  1872. 
From  1873-75  he  was  engaged  in  negotiating  for  Western  lands  and  loans  with  a  Mr.  David- 
son.    This  was  a  losing  venture.     In  July,  1877,  he  started  a  periodical  called  the  "Brooklyn 


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Monthly,"  and  was  engaged  in  this  enterprise  for  several  years.  This  was  also  an  unsuccess- 
ful undertaking,  and  in  1882  he  sold  out  his  interest  and  was  employed  for  a  time  in  the  Brad- 
street  Company.  In  March,  1886,  he  left  their  employ,  and  obtained  the  position  of  business 
manager  of  the  Brooklyn  Edition  of  the  "New  York  World."  For  a  short  time  he  was  en- 
g.iged  on  the  "New  York  Tribune,"  but  since  1886  he  has  been  connected  with  the  "New  York 
World." 

He  was  married  to  Sarah  W.  Hiscox,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  on  October  6th,  1870,  and  has 
two  children. 

CHILDREN. 

Lojise  Isabel,  born  September  27th,  1871,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Clare  Rodman,  born  January  9th,  1873,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Both  children  attended  Packer  Institute,  and  the  elder  subsequently  the  Art  Department 
of  Pratt  Institute,  though  neither  graduated. 

Louise  Isabel  married  Wm.  Estabrook  Chancellor  in  Brooklyn,  December  14th,  1892. 
Clare  Rodman  married  Frederick  Arnold  Kummer,  October  i6th,  1895,  at  Nutley.  N.  J. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  Delta  Kappa,  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Colloquy. 


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*CHARLES  WYLLYS  BETTS. 

♦Charles  Wyllys  Betts,  son  of  Hon.  Frederic  J.  and  Mary  (Ward)  Betts,  was  born  at 
Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  August  3rd,  1845.     Died  April  27,  1887,  in  New  York  City,  of  pneumonia. 

He  fitted  for  College  at  General  Russell's  School,  and  entered  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63. 
After  graduating  studied  Law  in  Columbia  College  Law  School,  where  he  graduated  in  i86q. 
Practiced  with  Matthews  &  Betts  at  33  Pine  Street,  and  also  at  37  Park  Row,  New  York 
City,  until  1871,  with  the  exception  of  five  months  in  1870,  spent  on  the  Plains  and  in  Califor- 
nia. In  the  Autumn  of  1871  he  entered  the  Post-Graduate  course  at  Yale,  and  for  eighteen 
months  pursued  the  studies  of  the  Anglo-Saxon,  German  and  English  History,  together  with 
Literature.  In  March,  1873,  he  accepted  an  offer  to  resume  the  practice  of  Law  with  Whitney 
&  Betts,  and  left  New  Haven,  Conn.,  without  applying  for  a  degree.  In  October,  1875,  the 
firm  changed  to  F.  H.  &  C.  W.  Betts,  Mr.  Whitney  having  accepted  the  position  of  Corpora- 
tion Counsel.  In  October.  1876,  the  firm  changed  to  Betts,  Atterbury  &  Betts,  and  he  was  a 
member  of  this  firm  at  the  time  of  his  death. 


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Mr.  Betts  was  a  member  of  various  literary  and  musical  clubs;  was  one  of  the  founder? 
of  the  City  Reform  Club,  in  which  he  took  an  active  interest.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
also  a  member  of  the  following  clubs:  The  Century;  New  York  Historical  Society;  New  York 
Geographical  Society ;  Union  Club ;  Riding  Club ;  Oratorical  Society ;  Knickerbocker  Club ; 
American  Numismatic  and  Archaeological  Society;  and  the  Bar  Association. 

Between  the  years  1878  and  "82  he  bought  seventy  acres  of  land  at  South  Hampton,  L.  I., 
close  to  the  ocean,  on  which  property  he  erected  a  number  of  cottages,  to  rent  in  the  Summer 
months.  In  one  of  them,  called  "The  ^lill,"  he  usually  kept  bachelor  hall.  It  was  his  custom 
to  spend  his  second  Summer  in  England. 

The  following  is  from  the  report  of  the  Committee : 

Charles  Wyllys  Betts  was  born  at  Newburgh  on  the  Hudson,  N.  Y.,  August  13th,  1845. 
Ten  years  later  his  parents  removed  to  New  Haven,  for  the  purpose  of  educating  their  chil- 
dren. He  entered  the  Military  Academy  of  the  late  General  Wm.  H.  Russell,  and  was  the 
j'oungest  boy  in  that  school.  In  1859,  he  was  obliged  by  illness  to  give  up  active  study  for  two 
years.  At  this  time  he  began  the  collection  of  coins  and  medals  which,  before  he  entered  Col- 
lege, became  so  large  and  valuable  that  he  was  recognized  as  a  singularly  successful  and  in- 
telligent collector.  At  that  period,  in  almost  every  New  England  country  store,  a  box  was 
kept  containing  money  received  in  business,  but  afterwards  found  to  be  uncuirent.  Wyllys 
Betts,  being  advised  by  his  physician  to  lead  an  out-door  life,  spent  his  time  in  traveling, 
principally  in  walking  through  the  country,  seeking  in  shops  and  farmhouses  specimens  of 
this  uncurrent  money.  In  this  ingenious  manner  he  collected  early  colonial  coin^s,  pieces  from 
almost  every  foreign  country,  occasional  Roman  pieces,  of  silver  and  copper,  and  in  one  in- 
stance an  Egyptian  coin  of  the  time  of  the  Ptolemies.  In  his  will  he  bequeathed  his  whole 
collection  to  Yale  University.  He  also  made  a  study  of  history  in  connection  with  coins,  and 
acquired  a  remarkably  accurate  knowledge  of  historical  events  both  ancient  and  modern. 

Having  fully  recovered  his  health  he  entered  Yale  College  in  1863.  His  College  record 
there  is  familiar  to  all  of  us.  In  College,  as  at  school,  he  was  always  noted  among  his  class- 
mates for  his  gentle,  generous  and  chivalrous  character.  As  he  reached  early  manhood  he 
became  earnestly  and  deeply  religious. 

He  was  a  good  scholar,  fond  of  composition,  musical,  very  popular  throughout  the  Class, 
and  beloved  by  all  who  knew  him  well  enough  to  appreciate  the  true  qualities  of  his  character. 
He  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1867,  and  at  the  Columbia  College  Law  School  two  years  later, 
and  spent  two  years  more  in  the  Post-Graduate  department  of  Yale  College,  pursuing  a  course 
in  English  Language,  History  and  Literature.  At  this  time  he  contemplated  for  a  while  enter- 
ing the  ministry,  and  with  that  view  spent  several  months  in  the  Berkeley  Divinity  School  at 
Middletown,  Conn. 

But  early  in  1872  he  returned  to  New  York  and  began  active  practice  in  connection  with 
the  firm  of  Whitney  &  Betts  (Wm.  C.  Whitney.  '63,  now  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  and  Frederic 
H.  Betts,  '64,  his  brother).  Upon  the  dissolution  of  that  firm  he  formed  with  his  brother  the 
firm  of  F.  H.  &  C.  W.  Betts.  and  afterwards  that  of  Betts.  Atterbury  &  Betts  (Chas.  L.  Atter- 

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bury,  '64).  At  first  he  was  engaged  in  Real  Estate  practice,  then  in  Patent,  Trademark,  and 
Copyright  litigation.  The  Western  Union  Telegraph  Company,  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Telegraph 
Company,  Yale  Lock  Mfg.  Co.  and  the  Celluloid  Company  were  among  their  clients,  and  a 
large  number  of  the  most  prominent  suits  relating  to  infringement  of  patents  during  the  last 
ten  years  were  placed  in  their  charge. 

In  these  litigations  his  brother  states  that  Wyllys  Betts  had  a  most  important  share ;  that 
"though  not  often  appearing  in  court,  much  of  the  efficient  preparation  which  led  to  final  suc- 
cess was  due  to  his  thorough  and  intelligent  examination  of  witnesses,  and  to  his  capacity  for 
clear  and  accurate  statement  in  the  preparation  of  briefs.  He  also  in  a  peculiar  manner  suc- 
ceeded in  impressing  upon  the  judges  and  even  upon  those  members  of  the  Bar  with  whom  he 
was  brought  in  contact,  a  feeling  of  affectionate  regard  most  unusual  under  such  circumstances 
of  acquaintance."  He  spent  many  Summer  vacations  in  Europe,  and  continued  to  make  rare 
and  costly  additions  to  his  collection  of  coins,  and  he  made  a  rare  collection  of  antique  silver 
illustrative  of  the  progress  of  design  and  ornamentation  in  this  branch  of  art.  Among  the 
beautiful  examples  in  this  collection  are :  a  chalice  and  patin  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth, 
cups  of  the  time  of  Charles  H.,  William  HI.,  Anne  and  George  II. 

He  was  a  man  of  culture  and  of  varied  accomplishments,  being  something  of  an  artist,  as 
is  indicated  by  small  specimens  of  his  work  which  show  a  refined  taste  for  color  and  accurate 
drawing.  He  was  fond,  too,  of  music  and  had  a  melodious,  well  trained  voice.  For  several 
years  he  was  a  volunteer  member  of  the  choir  of  Trinity  Church.  His  genial  disposition,  cul- 
tivated manner,  and  above  all  the  constant  spirit  of  kindly  consideration  for  others,  and  his 
quick  tact  in  perceiving  and  governing  his  conduct  by  their  feelings,  won  the  affection  of  those 
who  came  into  friendly  contact  with  him ;  and  his  fondness  for  society  gave  him  a  large  circle 
of  warm  friends,  young  and  old,  among  men  and  women  of  refinement. 

Yet  though  he  mingled  in  worldly  gayeties,  Wyllys  Betts  led  a  pure,  conscientious  Chris- 
tian life  from  boyhood. 

When  in  the  prime  of  manhood  and  success  he  was  suddenly  stricken  unto  death  by  that 
dread  disease,  pneumonia,  he  bore  it  cheerfully,  and  when  the  end  came  he  called  about  him 
those  he  loved,  bade  them  farewell,  and  with  quiet  courage  and  steadfast  hope  passed  forever 
from  their  view  into  the  "silent  land." 

The  following  letters  received  by  his  brother  immediately  after  his  death  indicate  the 
position  he  had  acquired  and  the  feeling  with  which  he  was  regarded  by  those  with  whom 
he  came  in  business  contact : 

(From  Hon.  William  J.  Wallace,  Circuit  Judge  of  the  United  States,  for  the  Second  Cir- 
cuit.) 

"New  York,  April  28th,  1887. 
"Dear  Mr.  Betts  : 

"I  was  inexpressibly  shocked  to  hear  of  your  brother's  death,  although  I  knew  from  what 
you  told  me  yesterday  that  his  condition  was  very  critical.  I  had  come  to  feel  a  warm  regard 
for  him  which  was  more  than  respect  and  friendly  interest,  and  was,  indeed,  affection. 

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'•He  was  such  a  perfect  type  of  health  and  manly  vigor,  and  the  future  seemed  to  hold 
so  much  in  store  for  him,  that  it  is  very  hard  to  reconcile  his  death  with  any  theory  that  it  is 
for  the  best.     I  have  been  thinking  of  him  all  the  day. 

"You  have  my  heartfelt  sympathy.     Very  sincerely  yours, 


'William  J.  Wallace." 


'"To  Frederic  H.  Betts,  Esq." 


(From  Hon.  Alfred  C.  Cox,  United  States  District  Judge  for  the  Northern  District  of 
New  York.) 

"Utic.'v,    April    28th,    1887. 
"My  Dear  Mr.  Betts  : 

"I  was  shocked  to  see  in  to-day's  paper  the  announcement  of  your  brother's  death.  I  had 
supposed,  from  what  I  learned  in  New  York,  that  the  danger  had  passed.  I  hope  you  will 
pardon  me  for  intruding  on  your  grief  at  such  a  time,  and  yet  I  cannot  refrain  from  telling 
you  how  keenly  I  sympathize  with  you  in  this  hour  of  affliction. 

"Your  brother  was  respected  and  admired  by  all  who  knew  him.  I  have  heard  him 
spoken  of  by  men  of  business  and  men  of  leisure,  by  members  of  the  Bench  and  of  the  Bar, 
and  always  in  terms  of  regard. 

"I  can  hardly  realize  that  his  voice  is  to  be  heard  no  more  in  the  forum  which  was  so 
often  adorned  by  his  presence  and  enlightened  by  his  careful  and  conscientious  labors. 

"He  possessed,  in  an  uncommon  degree,  two  characteristics  seldom  found  in  such  har- 
monious union — capacity  for  hard  intellectual  labor,  which  gave  him  so  enviable  a  position 
in  his  profession,  and,  on  the  other  hand,  the  unchanging  courtesy,  the  genial  enthusiasm,  the 
innate  refinement  which  so  endeared  him  to  his  friends  in  social  life.  At  all  tinics  and  on  all 
occasions,  'he  bore,  without  abuse,  the  grand  old  name  of  gentleman.' 

"That  such  a  life,  so  full  of  hope  and  promise,  should  be  hidden  by  the  shadow  of  the 
sable  wing  seems  almost  inexplicable.  And.  yet,  those  who  loved  him  best  may  surely  gain 
consolation  'in  the  truth  to  flesh  and  sense  unknown,'  that  now,  freed  from  the  troubles  and 
perplexities  which  surround  us  here,  he  is  beyond  'the  rock-waste  and  the  river,'  at  rest  amid 
the  serene  and  changeless  peace  of  the  eternal  world.     Sincerely, 

"Alfred  C.  Cox." 

college  societies,  honors,  rank. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa,  Phi  Theta  Psi,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scrpll  and  Key;  third  prize  decla- 
mation ;  third  term  Sophomore. 


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WILLIAM  HENRY  BISHOP. 

William  Henry  Bishop,  son  of  Elias  and  Catherine  (Kelley)  Bishop,  was  born  at  Hart- 
ford. Conn.,  January  7th,  1847.  On  his  father's  side  he  is  descended  in  direct  line  (through  his 
grandmother,  Harriet  Hemingway,)  from  Governor  James  Bishop,  of  the  New  Haven  Colony; 
and  through  his  father,  Elias  Bishop,  from  John  Bishop,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Colony  of 
Guilford,  Conn.,  in  1639.  Governor  James  Bishop  was  Secretary  to  the  New  Haven  Colony 
in  1651  and  Deputy  Governor  from  1683  till  his  death  in  1691.  John  Bishop  was  one  of  those 
chosen  to  purchase  the  lands  for  the  Guilford  Colony  from  the  Indians;  he  was  one  of  the  first 
five  Magistrates  of  the  Colony,  who  field  supreme  power  for  several  years. 

He  entered  '67  at  the  commencement  of  the  Sophomore  year.  Passed  Freshman  year  at 
St.  John's  College,  Fordham,  N.  Y.  On  graduation  he  studied  architecture,  and  was  employed 
in  the  Government  Architect's  Office  in  Washington.  D.  C,  until  1871.     Then,  in  conjunction 


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with  H.  A.  Chittenden,  Jr.,  his  classmate,  he  became  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  "  Milwaukee 
Journal  of  Commerce,"  until  January,  1875,  when  he  became  editor  and  proprietor  of  the 
"Daily  Commercial  Times."  On  the  25th  of  April,  1874,  he  went  to  Europe  for  six  months. 
Some  figure  sketches  of  his  in  the  Winter  Exhibition  of  1872,  at  the  Academy  of  Design,  New 
York  City,  sold  for  good  prices.  Has  contributed  several  sketches  of  ^lilwaukee  and  its 
surroundings  to  "  Frank  Leslie's  Newspaper."  In  November,  1876,  he  was  nominated  and 
ran  for  the  Legislature,  but  was  defeated.  He  has  contributed  several  articles,  both  prose  and 
poetrj'.  to  the  different  magazines  of  the  country  from  time  to  time.  The  following  among 
others  appear :  In  the  "Atlantic  "  for  January,  1876,  "One  of  the  Thirty  Pieces  "  ;  also  in  the 
same  monthly,  "  Notes  on  Turgeneflf  "  ;  verses  called  "  Endless  and  Evanescent  ;  in  "  Scrib- 
ner's  "  for  July,  1877,  "  The  Battle  of  Bunkerloo  "  ;  in  the  "  Atlantic,"  "  The  Canadian  Side." 
which  appeared  in  1879,  and  was  published  by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  In  1882  he  published 
in  twelve  installments  a  novel  entitled  "The  House  of  a  Merchant  Prince."  He  spent  the 
year  1878  in  Europe,  having  been  delegated  to  do  the  articles  in  the  "  Atlantic  "  on  the  Paris 
Exposition  of  that  year.  Half  of  the  j^ear  1881  he  spent  in  Mexico,  and  most  of  the  rest  in 
California  and  Arizona  in  the  service  of  "  Harpers   Magazine." 

In  1883  three  of  a  series  of  articles  on  Mexico  appeared  in  that  magazine,  and  five  others 
on  California  and  Arizona,  the  whole  forming  a  book  entitled  "  Old  Mexico  and  Her  Lost 
Provinces." 

In  1885  appeared  "  Fish  and  Men  in  the  Maine  Islands  " ;  also  a  work  entitled  "  Choy 
Susan  and  Other  Stories,"  published  by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 

In  1887  "  The  Golden  Justice  "  was  published. 

Since  1887  he  has  published  the  following  books :  "  The  Brownstone  Boy  and  other  Queer 
People"  (Carroll  &  Co.),  1888.  being  a  collection  of  short  stories  by  him  from  the  leading  mag- 
azines; "The  Yellow  Snake,"  a  novel  or  romance,  scene  laid  in  Mexico  (Lovell  &  Co.),  1891 ; 
"A  House  Hunter  in  Europe"  (Harper  Brothers),  1893  (the  contents  appeared  first  as  a 
serial  in  the  "  Atlantic  Monthly")  ;  "  A  Pound  of  Cure."  a  novel — the  scene  in  the  South  of 
France  (Scribner  &  Co.).  1894  (it  appeared  first  as  a  serial  in  "  Scribner's  Magazine"); 
"Writing  to  Rosina."  a  novelette  (The  Century  Company).  1894  (this  appeared  first  in  two 
parts  in  the  "Century  Magazine")  ;  also  "  The  Faience  Violin,"  translated  from  the  French 
of  Champfleury,  with  preface  on  Champfleury  (D.  Appleton  &  Co.).  1893;  and  also  "Ser- 
geant Von,"  a  novel,  anonymous  (Carroll  &  Co.),  1889.  In  the  .April  "Century"  of  1897  ap- 
peared a  humorous  story  by  him,  called  "Anti-Babel,  or  Prof.  Sandfog's  Universal  Lan- 
guage." 

On  returning  to  America  in  September.  1893.  he  accepted  the  position  of  Instructor  in 
French  and  Spanish  at  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  of  Yale  University. 

He  went  abroad  again  two  years  ago  in  the  summer  of  1895  for  a  new  trip  to  Spain,  and 
also  for  some  genealogical  investigation  in  England. 

He  married,  on  July  28th.  1896,  Miss  Mary  Dearborn  Jackson,  daughter  of  Dr.  George 
F.  Jackson,  of  Washington  Heights.  New  York  City. 

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CHILDREN. 

Duquesne,  born  Paris,  France,  December  3d,   1888;  died  New  Haven.  Conn.,  November 
25th,  1894. 

Julian  Brocklehurst,  born  New  York  City,  Jime  i8th,  1891. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia,  "  Sigma  Eps,"  Delta  Beta  Chi,  D.  K.  E.,  Honorary  Wolf's  Head,  1895.     Editor 
Yale  "  Courant,"  Prize  Poem  Sophomore  year,  Class  Poet. 


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ARTHUR  DOUGLASS  BISSELL. 

Arthur  Douglass  Bissell,  son  of  John  and  Isabella  Jeanette  (Halley)  Bissell,  was  born 
at  New  London,  N.  Y.,  January  loth,  1844.  He  fitted  for  college  under  Dr.  Benj.  W. 
Dwight  at  Clinton,  N.  Y.,  and  entered  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63.  After  graduation  he  was  en- 
gaged till  1885  in  the  transportation  business  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  In  the  Spring  of  1885  he  was 
appointed  by  President  Cleveland.  Collector  of  the  Port  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  This  position  he 
held  until  May  20th,  1889,  when  he  was  elected  Vice-President  of  the  People's  Bank,  and  has 
continued  actively  in  its  management  ever  since. 

He  married  Fanny  Casite,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  June  i6th,  1874. 

CHILDREN. 

Thomas  Halley,  born  March  27th,  1875,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. ;  died  December  21st,  1897, 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Mary  Eleanor,  born  October  22d.  1876,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 


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Howard,  born  September  30th,  1878,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Raymond,  born  October  26th,  1880,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Arthur  Douglass,  Jr.,  born  July  25th,  1883,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Isabella  Jeanette,  born  March  nth,   1886,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Lloyd,  born  August   12th,   1891,   Buffalo,   N.   Y. 

Thomas  Halley  was  a  senior  in  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  when  he  died 
from  a  severe  attack  of  typhoid  fever  on  the  21st  of  December,  1897.  He  was  an  exceptionally 
bright  boy.  The  following  account  is  taken  from  the  Buffalo  "  Courier"  of  December  21st, 
1897: 

"  A  Great  Bereavement — Death  of  Thomas  Halley  Bissell.  Eldest  Child  of  Arthur  D. 
Bissell  and  Fanny  C.  Bissell. — Thomas  Halley  Bissell,  eldest  child  of  Arthur  D.  Bissell,  died 
last  evening  at  the  family  home  on  Delaware  avenue  in  the  23rd  year  of  his  age.  Death  was 
caused  by  typhoid  fever. 

"  One  who  has  known  the  young  man  all  his  life  said  of  him : 

"  '  He  was  born  in  Buffalo  in  March,  1875.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the  High  School  in 
the  Class  of  1893.  He  always  distinguished  himself  in  his  studies.  This  was  to  have  been 
his  last  year  at  the  Institute,  where  he  stood  high  in  every  class.  His  was  one  of  the  noblest 
characters  I  ever  knew.  His  mates  loved  him.  He  was  gentle,  manly,  strong  and  honest, 
high-minded,  of  a  singularly  loving  disposition,  and  exceptionally  gifted  intellectually.  He 
was  an  ideal  son  and  friend,  and  I  know  of  no  young  man  of  his  years  so  well  beloved  as  he 
was.'  " 

Mary  Eleanor  is  studying  at  Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Howard  is  a  Sophomore  at  Yale  in  the  Class  of  lyoo. 

The  other  children  are  attending  school  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

COLLEGE   SOCIETIES,    HONORS,   RANK. 

Linonia.  "Sigma  Eps,"  Delta  Beta  Chi.  D  K  E  and  Skull  and  Bones.  University  Crew, 
1866-67.     Spoonman. 


*  WILLIAM  EDWARD  BLISS. 

*  William  Edward  Bliss,  son  of  George  and  Catharine  (Sanford)  Bliss,  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  July  8,  1846.  He  fitted  for  college  at  the  Rectory  School,  Hamden,  Conn., 
under  Rev.  C.  W.  Everett,  and  entered  '67  in  July,  '63.  He  left  the  class  in  1866,  and  became 
engaged  for  a  time  in  the  dry  goods  business  of  Eldridge,  Dunham  &  Co. 

He  traveled  extensively  in  Europe  and  America. 

While  in  college  the  condition  of  his  health  made  it  necessary  for  him  to  spend  a  portion 
of  two  winters  in  a  milder  climate.  This  necessity  continued  during  the  remainder  of  his  life, 
so  that  till  the  winter  preceding  his  death,  when  he  was  too  feeble  to  travel,  he  passed  the 
cold  months  of  each  year  in  a  Southern  latitude,  either  in  this  country  or  in  the  vicinity  of  the 
Mediterranean.  He  was  a  member  of  a  firm  that  succeeded  his  father  in  business  in  1869,  but 
his  health  continuing  feeble,  he  retired  at  the  end  of  three  years.  He  died  at  his  father's 
house  in  New  York  City,  December  12th,  1880,  in  his  35th  year. 


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COLLEGE   SOCIETIES,    HONORS,   RANK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Beta  Chi  and  D.  K.  E.     Yale  University  conferred  upon 
him  the  degree  of  M.  A.  in  1878. 


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GEORGE  COTTON  BRAINERD. 

George  Cotton  Brainerd,  son  of  Joseph  Hungerford  Brainerd  (Yale,  1822)  and  Fanny 
(Partridge)  Brainerd,  was  born  at  St.  Albans,  Vt.,  November  23d,  1845.  He  fitted  for  college 
under  John  S.  D.  Tayler  at  St.  Albans,  Vt.,  and  entered  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63.  His  father  was 
a  prominent  member  of  the  Governor's  Council  of  the  State  of  Vermont  in  the  years  1832-3. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Bar  and  was  County  Clerk  of  Franklin  County,  Vt.,  for  38  years, 
and  deacon  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  St.  Albans,  Vt.,  for  40  years.  His  mother, 
Fanny  Partridge,  was  the  daughter  of  Cotton  Partridge  and  Hannah  Lyman  Partridge. 
Hannah  Lyman  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Joseph  Lyman,  S.  T.  D.,  who  graduated  from  Yale 
in  1767,  and  was  one  of  the  Presidents  of  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign 
Missions.  On  his  father's  side  he  is  descended  from  Daniel  Brainerd,  who  settled  near  Had- 
dam,  Conn.,  in  the  year  1640.  On  his  mother's  side  he  is  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Dudley  and 
Simon  Bradstreet,  early  Governors  of  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  and  of  Rev.  John  Cotton, 


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who  came  over  from  Boston.  England,  to  Boston,  Mass..  in  the  ship  Griffin  in  1633,  and  out  of 
compHment  to  whom  Boston  was  named.  He  is  also  a  descendant  of  the  Dwight.  Strong, 
Huntington  and  Lyman  families  of  New  England. 

After  graduation  he  taught  one  year  at  Easton,  Conn.  He  then  visited  for  a  few  months 
friends  in  the  West  and,  returning  to  St.  Albans,  commenced  the  study  of  the  law.  He  en- 
tered the  Harvard  Law  School  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  in  1869,  graduating  in  1871.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  Bar  of  the  State  of  Vermont  in  1871,  and  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  1872,  and 
took  up  his  residence  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  where  he  practiced  his  profession  until  1880.  when 
he  moved  his  office  to  New  York  City,  where  he  has  been  practicing  ever  since. 

He  ran  in  1892  on  the  Republican  ticket  for  the  Assembly  from  the  First  Assembly  District, 
Kings  County,  N.  Y.,  but  was  defeated. 

COLLEGE   SOCIETIES,    HONORS,   RANK. 

Brothers,  Gamma  Nu  and  Alpha  Delta  Phi.  Dissertation. 


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JOSEPH  JUDSON  BROOKS. 

Joseph  Judson  Brooks,  son  of  Joseph  Judson  and  Judith  (Twing)  Brooks,  was  born  at 
Sakm,  Ohio,  November  23d,  1845.  He  fitted  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary,  Mass.,  and  en- 
tered '(>^  in  the  Fall  of  '63.  His  father  was  a  graduate  of  the  Wilbraham  Institute.  Massa- 
chusetts, and  a  lawyer  by  profession.  He  was  born  in  Vermont,  and  emigrated  to  Salem 
Ohio.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  attorney  for  the  Pittsburg,  Fort  Wayne  &  Chicago 
Railroad,  and  was  prominently  connected  with  the  banking  interests  of  the  State.  His 
mother  was  a  native  of  Vermont. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  at  Salem.  Ohio,  and  graduated  from  the  Cambridge 
Law  School.  He  resided  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  where  he  remained  till  1881,  when  he  came 
to  Pittsburg  and  accepted  a  position  as  assistant  counsel  of  the  Pittsburg,  Cincinnati.  Chi- 
cago &  St.  Louis  Railway  Co..  known  as  the  Pennsylvania  lines  West  of  Pittsburg. 

He  married  Henrietta  Faber  at  Pittsburg.  Pa..  September  2d,  1869. 


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CHILDREN. 

Joseph  Judson,  born  May  i8th.   187 1.  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Frank  Faber.  born  December  15th,  1873.  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Alexander  Montgomery,  born  3tlay  i8th,   1878,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

J.  Twing,  born  February  27th,   1884,  Pittsburg,   Pa. 

The  three  eldest  prepared  for  college  at  Easthampton,  Mass. 

Joseph  Judson  graduated  from  the  Yale  Scientific  School  in  1893,  and  is  now  in  the 
Traffic  Department  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad's  lines  West  of  Pittsburg. 

Frank  Faber  graduated  from  the  Yale  Scientific  School  in  1896,  and  is  now  with  the  Title 
&  Trust  Company,  of  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Alexander  Montgomery  is  a  Junior  in  Yale  S.  S.  School. 

The  youngest  child  is  studying  at  home. 

COLLEGE   SOCIETIES,   HONORS,   RANK. 

Brothers,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Delta  Beta  Chi,  D.  K.  E.  Honorary  Wolf's  Head  1897,  2d  prize 
Freshman  and  Sophomore  Prize  debate. 


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WILLIAM  ALEXANDER  BROTHER. 

William  Alexander  Brother,  son  of  Alexander  and  Sidney  P.  (January)  Brother,  was 
born  at  New  Orleans,  La.,  November  12th,  1844.  He  fitted  for  Yale  at  Andover,  Mass.,  under 
Dr.  S.  H.  Taylor,  and  entered  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63.  The  Secretary  has  only  heard  once  from 
him  since  graduation,  and  as  his  letter  is  very  full  and  covers  all  the  ground  necessary  for  a 
biographical  .sketch,  it  is  hereby  reproduced  in  full. 

■'  Denver,    Colo.,    March   27th,    1897. 
"  W.  H.  Morse,  Esq.,   New  York  City : 

"Dear  Classmate — With  mingled  feelings  of  pleasure  and  regret,  I  sit  down  to  write  you 
a  short  history  of  my  life — pleasure  at  the  thought  of  once  again  writing  to  my  Classmate,  and 
regret  that  I  cannot  give  a  more  satisfactory  account  of  myself. 

"I  was  shipping  clerk  in  New  York  City  during  the  winter  of  1867-1868,  then  entered  my 
father's  bank  in  New  Orleans,  La.,  for  nine  months,  was  then  established  in  the  cotton  busi- 


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ness  for  two  years  under  the  firm  name  of  Green.  Crump  &  Brother.  For  three  years  after- 
wards was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  L.  R.  Simmons  &  Co.,  Shreveport,  La.,  in  the  Blank 
Book  and  Job  Prindng  business.  The  yellow  fever  of  1873  practically  rumed  my  business. 
so  I  sold  out  for  a  nommal  sum,  stayed  in  St.  Louis  about  a  year,  then  went  to  San  Antonio, 
Texas,  intending  to  go  into  the  sheep  business,  but  instead  lost  my  money  in  a  "Bat"  Cave 
Fertilizer  scheme. 

"In  the  Spring  of  1879  I  took  the  Leadville  tever,  came  out  here  to  Colorado,  where  I 
have  remained  ever  since,  following  mining  principally. 

"As  a  prospector  I  have  had  poor  luck  in  selling  any  mining  claims  at  good  figures,  but 
have  worked  hard,  suffered  privations,  been  hungry,  slept  on  the  ground,  climbed  high  moun- 
tains, and  in  every  way  'rustled.' 

"I  have  been  over  three  years  in  the  Cripple  Creek  District,  but  with  poor  success,  and 
am  at  present  thinking  of  going  to  Idaho  Springs  (about  35  miles  from  here)  to  put  in  the 
Summer  at  whatever  work  I  can  obtain. 

"My  health  is  fair,  my  hair  is  quite  gray,  and  I  look  to  be,  as  I  am,  52  years  old. 

"Brother  Peck  showed  me  the  Class  pictures  to-day  and  says  I  look  just  like  my  picture, 
only  a  little  older.  I  left  my  Class  Book  with  my  sister  in  St.  Louis  in  1879,  and  the  sight 
of  the  faces  of  '67  brought  to  mind  many  pleasurable  reminiscences  as  well  as  regrets.  I 
cannot  possibly  attend  the  meeting,  but  will  try  to  send  my  picture  in  time. 

"Please  give  my  kindest  regards  and  warmest  wishes  to  all  my  Classmates,  and  hope 
that  they  will  all  live  long  and  prosper.  It  hardly  seems  possible  that  thirty  years  have  elapsed 
since  we  marched  forth  so  strong  and  confident,  all  unconscious  of  the  trials  of  this  terrible 
world.  I  would  especially  like  to  hear  from  J.  J.  Brooks,  George  Adee,  J.  M.  Spencer  and 
Nate  Chapman.  I  will  send  my  address  to  Mr.  Peck  as  soon  as  I  get  settled.  Good-bye,  my 
Classmate  and  friend,  and,  believe  me,  yours  sincerely, 

"W.  A.  Brother, 
"  Class  of  '67,  Yale." 

COLLEGE   SOCIETTES,   HONORS,   RANK. 

Brothers,  "  Sigma  Eps "  and  D.   K.   E. 


ANSELM  BYRON  BROWN. 

Anselm  Byron  Brown,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Hunt)  Brown,  was  born 
April  28th,   1845,  at  Sebago.  Cumberland  County,  Maine. 

No  word  has  ever  been  received  from  him  by  the  Secretary  since  graduation.  The  fol- 
lowing account  has  been  prepared  and  given  by  his  brother,  Edward  F.  Brown,  Yale  '63 : 

"  He  is  a  son  of  the  late  Joseph  Brown,  born  in  Baldwin,  Cumberland  County,  Maine, 
April  23d,  1805,  died  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  March  3d,  1866,  and  of  the  late  Mary  Elizabeth 
Hunt,  born  in  Concord,  Mass.,  21st  of  June,  181 1,  died  at  1008  Madison  avenue.  New  York 
City,  2d  September,  1874.  His  great-grandfather  commanded  a  company  of  minute-men  in 
the  battle  of  Concord,  April  19,   1775. 

"  Anselm  Byron  Brown  prepared  for  College  at  Bridgton  Academy,  North  Bridgton. 
Maine,  and  in  New  York  City  under  the  tutorship  of  Rev.  Dr.  Thomas  C.  Strong.  For 
a  short  time  he  had  also  the  instruction  of  Eli  T.   Mack,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.       He  en- 


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tered  Yale  as  a  Freshman  in  the  Summer  of  1863  and  graduated  with  the  class  of  1867.  He 
remained  in  New  Haven  after  his  graduation  from  the  Academic  Department,  and  took  the 
regular  course  in  the  Divinity  School  and  graduated  in  1870.  While  studying  in  the  Di- 
vinity School  he  had  charge  of  a  mission  chapel  in  New  Haven  (the  name  of  it  I  do  not  now 
recall)  until  he  accepted  a  call  to  a  Congregational  Church  in  Lockport,  111.  He  remained 
there  until  he  went  to  Europe  in  1874.  He  studied  in  the  University  at  Halle  am  der  Saale  in 
1874-5,  residing  in  the  family  of  Prof.  Jacobi,  Professor  of  Church  History  in  that  University. 
Upon  his  return  to  this  country,  he  filled  temporary  vacancies  in  churches  in  different  parts 
of  the  country.  He  had  charge  for  a  year  (I  think  1877)  of  the  Congregational  Church  on 
Washington  avenue,  24th  Ward,  New  York  City.  He  then  organized  a  Preparatory  School 
for  College  (I  think  about  1882)  in  Detroit,  Michigan.  Subsequently  he  went  to  the  Pa- 
cific Coast  to  fill  a  temporary  vacancy  of  a  pulpit  in  San  Francisco,  and  from  there  he  went 
to  New  Whatcom,  Washington,  on  Puget  Sound,  where  he  built  up  quite  a  prosperous 
church,  but  which  was  practically  ruined  by  the  panic  of  1893.  He  then  went  to  Japan  and 
remained  until  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  with  China,  when  he  returned  to  this  country 
and  is  now  in  Los  Angeles,  California.  He  has  a  School  for  boys  Preparatory  for  College  at 
Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  where  he  resides." 

In  May,  1899,  he  became  attached  to  the  U.  S.  War  Department,  Bureau  of  Education, 
and  is  stationed  at  Ponce,  Porto  Rico.  Four  of  his  nephews,  sons  of  Edward  F.  Brown,  Yale 
'63,  have  been  educated  at  Yale,  the  yottngest,  Alfred  Jerome  Brown,  graduating  in  the  Class 
of  '99. 

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*  LEONARD  TREAT  BROWN. 

*  Leonard  Treat  Brown,  son  of  Rev.  Joshua  R.  and  Susan  A.  Brown,  was  born  at  Leb- 
anon, Conn.,  December  26th,  1846;  died  December  28th.  1.S80.  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  fitted 
for  College  at  the  New  Haven  High  School,  and  entered  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63.  After 
graduation  Mr.  Brown  taught  for  a  few  years  at  Woodstock,  Mass.,  and  also  at  Glastonbury, 
Conn.  In  1875  he  removed  from  the  latter  place  to  Cranbury,  N.  J.,  where  he  was  appointed 
principal  of  an  English  and  Classical  School,  called  the  Brainerd  Institute.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  an  assistant  teacher  in  Public  School  No.  i  in  the  City  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  The 
following  obituary  notice  of  him  appeared  in  the  "  Brooklyn  Eagle  "  of  December  30th,  1880 : 

"  Mr.  Leonard  T.  Brown,  assistant  teacher  in  Public  School  No.  i,  died  of  pneumonia 
on  Tuesday,  after  an  illness  of  ten  days,  at  his  residence  on  Nassau  street.  The  interment 
will  take  place  to-morrow  in  New  Haven,  the  residence  of  his  mother.  Mr.  Brown,  the  son 
of  a  Congregational  minister,  was  born  at  Lebanon,  Conn.,  December  26th,  1846.     His  father 

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died  when  Leonard  was  twelve  years  of  age.  His  mother  removed  to  New  Haven,  and  her 
son  was  graduated  at  Yale  College  when  he  was  twenty  years  old.  For  the  greater  part  of  the 
time  since  he  has  been  engaged  in  teaching.  He  came  to  School  No.  i  in  this  city  last  Sep- 
tember, and  his  labors  were  earnest  and  faithful  till  he  was  prostrated  bj-  disease.  He  was 
generally  successful  as  a  teacher,  and  his  services  were  in  every  way  acceptable  to  the  Com- 
mittee and  the  Principal  of  the  School.  He  was  greatly  beloved  by  the  members  of  the  Class 
under  his  instruction  and  by  the  Principal." 

He  was  married  August  8th.  1870,  to  Miss  Ida  Meech,  of  Grosvenor  Dale,  in  Thompson, 
Conn.,  who  survives  him,  with  one  child. 

CHILDREN. 

Frank  Leonard,  born  July  6th.  1874.  Glastonbury,  Conn. 

COLLEGE   SOCIETIES,   HONORS,   RANK. 

Linonia.  Delta  Kappa.  2nd  prize  Solution  Mathematical  Problems  Sophomore  and  Senior 
years.  2nd  prize  in  Astronomical  Problems  Senior  year,  3rd  prize  Junior  Prize  Debate  and  2nd 
prize  Senior  in  Linonia.  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Oration. 


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WALLACE   BRUCE.     ' 

Wallace  Bruce,  son  of  Alfred  and  Mary  Ann  (MacAlpine)  Bruce,  was  born  at  Hillsdale, 
N.  Y.,  November  loth,  1844.  He  fitted  for  College  at  the  Claverack  Institute  at  Hudson,  N. 
Y.,  and  entered  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63.  His  great-grandfather,  John  Bruce,  was  a  Sergeant  at 
the  Battle  of  Lexington  in  1775.  His  mother's  grandfather  served  four  years  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  his  grandmother.  Mary  Adams,  was  descended  from  Priscilla  Alden. 

After  graduation  studied  law,  one  year  at  Troy  and  two  years  at  Hudson.  N.  Y.  Was 
admitted  to  the  Bar  at  Albany.  December  9th,  1869.  Shortly  afterwards  he  entered  the  Lec- 
ture field,  residing  at  Poughkeepsie,  his  home,  from  1871  to  1889. 

In  May.  1889,  he  was  appointed  by  President  Harrison,  Consul  to  Edinburgh,  Scotland, 
which  position  he  held  till  September  sth.  1893.  when  he  returned  to  America  and  took  up  his 
residence  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Among  the  prominent  lectures  which  he  has  delivered  throughout  the  country  might  be 
mentioned  the  following :  "  The  Legends  and  Poetry  of  the  Hudson  "  ;    "  Ready  Wit "  ; 


"  Native  Mettle  "  ;  •'  Land  Marks  of  Scott  "  ;  "'  Woman  in  Shakespeare  "  ;  "  Robert  Burns  "  ; 
and  "  Washington  Irving." 

Among  his  publications  are  the  following :  "  Old  Homestead  Poems  "  ;  "  Guide  to  the 
Hudson  River  and  the  White  Mountains." 

He  writes  that  he  averages  about  120  lectures  a  year  and  travels  about  forty  thousand 
miles. 

While  American  Consul  to  Edinburgh  he  delivered  several  poems,  among  many,  one 
on  the  occasion  of  the  unveiling  of  the  Burns  monument  at  Ayr,  called  "  The  Auld  Brig's 
Welcome  ";  another  called  "  The  Immortal  Memory  of  Robert  Burns."  at  Ayr,  Glasgow  and 
Leith.  He  made  the  address  at  the  unveiling  of  Symington's  Monument  at  Lead  Hills;  the 
dedicatory  address  at  the  unveiling  of  the  Lincoln  ^lonument  in  Edinburgh.  This  was  the 
first  monument  erected  to  Lincoln  in  Europe,  the  money  for  which  was  raised  by  his  exertions 
from  American  citizens  as  a  Memorial  to  Scottish- American  soldiers. 

He  was  honored  with  a  farewell  banquet  by  the  Cap  and  Gown  Society  of  Edinburgh, 
and  made  Honorary  President  of  the  Shakespeare  Society,  and  was  tendered  a  complimentary 
farewell  dinner  by  the  citizens  of  Edinburgh.  The  Lord  Provost  and  Town  Council  of  Edin- 
burgh presented  him  on  his  retiring  from  office  with  a  solid  silver  loving  cup,  weighing 
seventy-five  ounces,  bearing  the  following  inscription : 

Presented  to 

Hon.  Wall.\ce  Bruce,  Consul  of  the  United  States  of  America,  by  the  Lord  Provost, 
Magistrates  and  Town  Council  of  Edinburgh,  on  his  retiring  from  office  in  this  City,  as  a  mark 
of  esteem  and  recognition  of  his  services  to  Scotti-h  Literatrre.     September.  1893. 

He  married  Annie  A.  Becker,  of  Schodack.  N.  Y..  June  29th,  1870. 


Clara  Bertha,  born  November  28th.  1871,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

Kenneth  F.,  born  December  28th,  1876,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

Malcolm,  born  April  5th,  1883,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

Clara  Bertha  attended  Lindenhall  Seminary,  Poughkeepsie.  N.  Y.,  Rye  Seminary,  Cassel, 
Germany,  and  the  Edinburgh  University  Extension. 

Kenneth  attended  school  at  Riverview  Institute.  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y..  Edinburgh  Col- 
legiate Institute  and  Williston  Seminary,  Alass.,  and  finally  graduated  from  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover.  Mass..  in  1896.  and  is  now  in  the  Class  of  1900  at  Yale  College. 

Malcolm  is  now  attending  the  Adelphi  Academy,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

COLLEGE   SOCIETIES,    HONORS,   RANK. 

Brothers.  Gamma  Nu.  Alpha  Delta  Phi.  ist  prize  Freshman  Prize  Debate.  3rd  prize  Junior 
and  2nd  prize  Senior.  3rd  prize  English  Composition  second  term  Sophomore,  ist  prize  Eng- 
lish Composition  third  term  Sophomore.  2nd  prize  Declamation  third  term  Sophomore.  Yale 
Lit.  Editor.  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Oration. 

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DAVID   JAMES    BURRELL. 

David  James  Burrell,  son  of  David  and  Elizabeth  (Felgar)  Btirrell,  was  born  at  Mt. 
Pleasant,  Pa.,  August  ist,  1841.  He  prepared  for  College  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.,  under  Dr.  S.  H.  Taylor,  and  entered  Yale  College  in  September,  1863.  His  father  and 
mother  were  both  Americans ;  from  the  former  he  inherited  Scotch,  Irish  and  French  blood 
and  from  the  latter  Dutch. 

He  spent  one  year  after  graduation,  1867-8,  in  the  Chicago  Theological  Seminary ;  two 
years,  1868-9,  in  the  Union  Theological  Seminary,  N.  Y. ;  one  year,  1870,  in  charge  of  a  Mis- 
sion Chapel  in  N.  Y. ;  two  years,  1871-2,  in  charge  of  the  Peoria  Street  Presbyterian  Church, 
Chicago.  From  1872  to  1876  he  was  settled  over  the  Westminster  Presbyterian  Church  at  the 
same  place.  From  1876  to  1887  he  was  settled  as  Pastor  over  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Dubuque,  Iowa,  during  which  time  the  membership  grew  from  200  to  600.  and  was 
the  most  influential  church  in  Iowa  when  he  left  it. 


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In  1887  he  resigned  to  accept  a  call  to  the  Westminster  Presbyterian  Churcn  of  Minne- 
apolis. During  his  four  years'  pastorate  the  membership  increased  from  900  to  1,400,  with  an 
average  attendance  of  more  than  fifteen  hundred,  morning  and  evening  alike.  This  church 
became  the  most  flourishing  and  influential  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  Northwest.  In  Janu- 
ary, 1891,  he  was  called  to  the  Marble  Collegiate  Church  of  New  York  City,  and  entered 
upon  his  duties  in  May  of  the  same  year.  This  is  the  oldest  church  on  the  Continent,  or- 
ganized in  1628,  and  is  largely  endowed.  The  church  is  situated  at  the  corner  of  Fifth  avenue 
and  29th  street,  the  boundary  line  between  upper  and  lower  New  York.  Unusual  success  has 
crowned  his  efforts.  Starting  with  a  small  congregation,  the  membership  of  the  church  has 
increased  at  the  rate  of  over  one  hundred  a  year. 

On  October  i8th,  1871,  he  married  Clara  S.  DeForest,  of  Freeport,  111. 


Clara  Miriam,  born  August  6th,  1872,  Chicago,  111. ;  died  July  7th,  1880,  Dubuque,  la. 

Elizabeth  Sergeant,  born  May  12th,  1874,  Chicago,  111. 

David  DeForest,  born  June  29th,  1876.  Chicago,  111. 

Norman  ]Macleod,  born  March  6th,  1878,  Dubuque,  la. 

Eleanor  Loudenois,  born  August  12th,  1881,  Dubuque,  la. 

Katharine  DeForest,  born  August  i8th,  1890.  Minneapolis,  Minn. ;  died  December  24th. 
1891,  New  York  City. 

His  two  daughters  have  attended  school  in  Dubuque,  Minneapolis,  and  New  York  City. 

David  DeForest  fitted  for  College  at  the  Collegiate  School,  West  77th  street.  New  York 
City,  and  entered  Yale  in  the  Fall  of  1894,  with  the  Class  of  '98. 

Norman  Macleod  fitted  for  College  at  the  Collegiate  School,  77th  street,  New  York  City, 
and  entered  Yale  in  the  Fall  of  '95  with  the  Class  of  '99. 

Elizabeth  attended  Miss  Ely's  School,  Riverside  Drive,  New  York  City. 

Eleanor  has  had  a  varied  school  life. 

Dave  has  attended  the  20th,  25th,  and  30th  reunions  of  the  Class.  He  presided  at  the 
25th  reunion,  which  was  acknowledged  as  one  of  the  best  '67  ever  held.  He  served  so  well 
as  Chairman  at  that  time  that  several  of  the  Class  quietly  informed  the  Secretary  that  the.v 
would  like  to  have  him  permanent  Chairman  at  all  our  future  gatherings. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa.  Delta  Beta  Chi,  D.  K.  E.  and  Scroll  and  Key,  ist  prize  English 
Composition  second  term  Sophomore,  2nd  prize  English  Composition  third  term  Sophomore, 
2nd  prize  Declamation  third  term  Sophomore,  ist  prize  Freshman  Prize  Debate  Linonia,  Ora- 
tion Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Townsend,  DeForest. 


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*EDWIN    STONE   BUTTERFIELD. 

*Edwin  Stone  Butterfield,  son  of  Alanson  and  Julia  (Stone)  Butterfield,  was  born  at 
Bridgewater,  Pa.,  December  17th,  1840. 

He  fitted  for  College  under  Prof.  S.  S.  Hartwell  at  ^lontrose,  Pa.,  and  entered  the  Cla.ss 
of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63. 

On  his  father's  side  his  ancestors  were  from  Massachusetts  and  on  his  mother's  from 
Connecticut. 

For  the  first  nine  months  after  graduation  he  was  principal  of  the  Academy  at  Pompey, 
N.  Y.  He  then  took  up  his  residence  in  Syracuse,  where  he  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Judge 
Israel  Spencer;  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  October,  1869.  In  1887  he  graduated  from  the 
Medical  College  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y.  He  resided  here,  practicing  his  profession  till  March, 
1895,  when  he  went  to  Denver,  Colo.,  for  his  health,  and  continued  the  practice  of  tTie  law  there 
till  the  Summer  of  1897.  when  he  came  East  to  pass  the  Summer  at  his  home  in  South 
Montrose,  Pa. 


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COLLEGE   SOCIETIES^    HONORS,    RANK 

Brothers,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Alpha  Delta  Phi.  3rd  prize  Sophomore  Prize  Debate. 

The  following  is  from  the  '"  Montrose  Democrat  "  of  December  23rd,  1897: 

DEATH'S     DOINGS. 

EDWIN    STONE   BUTTERFIELD. 

Edwin  Stone  Butterfield  died  at  his  old  home  and  birthplace  at  South  Montrose,  on 
Tuesday,  December  7th.  1897.  He  was  born  and  passed  his  early  years  at  home  and  attended 
the  Montrose  Academy,  where  he  was  prepared  for  College  by  Prof.  S.  S.  Hartwell.  He 
graduated  at  Yale  College  in  the  Class  of  1867.  and  for  the  next  year  or  more  was  Principal 
of  the  Academy  at  Pompey,  N.  Y.  He  then  entered  the  law  office  of  Judge  Israel  Spencer, 
at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  as  a  student,  and  aftei  his  admission  to  the  Bar,  practiced  law  in  that 
city  for  many  years,  both  alone  and  in  partnership.  During  that  time  he  attended  the  Medical 
Department  of  the  Syracuse  University  and  received  the  degree  of  M.  D..  for  the  purpose  of 
making  himself  more  proficient  in  those  branches  of  the  law  where  medical  knowledge  is 
serviceable.  Some  three  years  ago  he  went  to  Denver,  Colo.,  where  he  engaged  in  business. 
His  health  being  somewhat  impaired,  he  returned  to  his  old  home  early  last  Summer,  where  he 
had  since  been  more  or  less  of  an  invalid.  In  College  he  was  notable  for  strength  and  vigor 
in  students'  sports.  He  was  a  good  student,  faithful  in  his  duties  and  had  the  respect  of  the 
Faculty  and  his  associates  for  his  integrity  of  character  and  correctness  of  life.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  College  Church  and  of  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  fraternity  and  the  third  member 
of  his  family  from  Montrose  to  study  at  Yale,  the  others  being  his  uncles — the  Rev.  Oliver 
Butterfield.  buried  at  New  Haven,  and  Dr.  Edwin  Butterfield,  for  whom  he  was  named,  buried 
at  South  Montrose.  He  was  the  eldest  son  of  Alanson  Butterfield  and  Julia  Stone,  the  latter 
of  whom  survives  him  with  his  two  brothers,  Albert,  of  Denver.  Colo.,  and  Dr.  Jerome  F.. 
and  his  sister.  Mrs.  Silas  Decker,  of  South  IMontrose.  He  was  a  grandson  of  Joseph  Butter- 
field. a  native  of  Massachusetts,  who  settled  early  in  the  century  at  South  Montrose,  where  the 
family  homestead  has  since  been  located.  The  funeral  was  held  at  the  old  home  on  Thursday, 
December  9th.  the  Rev.  Dr.  A.  L.  Benton,  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  officiating.  The  burial 
\vas  with  his  departed  kindred  in  the  South  Montrose  cemetery. 


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CHARLES    KINSEY    CANNON. 


Charles  Kinsey  Cannon,  son  of  Garrit  S.  Cannon  (Rutgers,  ':i3)  and  Hannah  (Kinsey) 
Cannon,  was  born  at  Bordentown,  N.  J.,  November  12th,  1846.  He  fitted  for  College  under 
Professor  M.  F.  Hyde  at  Burlington  College  and  entered  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63 

His  mother,  Hannah  Kinsey.  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  Kinsey,  of  Burlington.  N.  J., 
and  a  descendant  of  John  Kinsey,  one  of  the  first  Quaker  settlers  at  Burlington,  in  1677.  His 
great-grandfather,  James  Kinsey,  was  Chief  Justice  of  the  New  Jersey  Supreme  Court  from 
1789- 180.3,  and  his  father,  John  Kinsey,  was  Chief  Justice  of  Pennsylvania. 

His  paternal  grandfather,  Rev.  James  Spencer  Cannon,  was  professor  in  the  Theological 
Seminary  at  Rutgers  College,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 

Spent  the  first  years  after  graduation  in  studying  law  at  his  home  in  Bordentown,  N.  J. 
Entered  Columbia  Law  School,  N.  Y.,  in  October,  1868,  and  graduated  in  May,  1870.  Took 
the  first  prize  of  $250  for  best  examination  in  the  Department  of  Municipal  Law  in  that  school. 


Took  up  his  residence  in  Hoboken.  N.  J.,  in  1870,  and  has  practiced  his  profession  there 
ever  since.    In  the  Spring  of  1877  he  was  elected  Corporation  Attorney. 

He  married  Agnes  H.  Herbert  at  Hoboken,  N.  J..  April  22d,  1880.  She  died  March  22d, 
1897. 

CHILDREN. 

Garrit  S.,  born  February  3d.   1881,  Hoboken,  N.  J. 
Agnes  H.,  born  July  27th,  1883,  Hoboken,  N.  J. 

Garrit  S.  has  been  attending  Columbia  Institute,  in  New  York  City,  and  is  now  at  the 
Preparatory  School  of  Stevens  Institute,  at  Hoboken,  N.  J. 
Agnes  H.  is  attending  the  Hoboken  High  School. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa.  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  High  Oration. 


GEORGE    RICE    CARRINGTON. 

George  Rice  Carrington,  son  of  George  Rice  and  Letty  Maria  (Rider)  Carrington,  was 
born  at  Stamford,  N.  Y.,  November  25t;h.  1837.  He  fitted  for  College  at  Claverack.  N.  Y., 
under  Prof.  Frost,  and  entered  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  until  May  12th,  1869.  Was 
admitted  to  the  Bar  that  year.  Removed  to  New  York  City,  October  i6th,  1869,  and  has  been 
practicing  his  profession  there  ever  since. 

He  married,  October  15th,  1890,  Miss  Josephine  D.  Rogers.     They  have  no  children. 

COLLEGE   SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  The  'Nestor'  of  '67,  First  Colloquy. 


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JACOB   ANDREW   CARTWRIGHT. 

Jacob  Andrew  Cartwright,  son  of  Alexander  Cotton  and  Mary  Magdelin  (Stark)  Cart- 
wright,  was  born  at  Nashville.  Tenn.,  November  27th,  1844.  He  fitted  for  College  at  the 
Nashville  High  School  under  L.  G.  Tarbox,  and  entered   67  in  the  Winter  of  '64. 

His  father  was  a  farmer  and  engaged  in  the  Real  Estate  business.  His  ancestors  came 
from  England  and  Scotland,  and  settled  in  Virginia.  His  paternal  great-grandfather  was 
one  of  the  pioneers  and  early  settlers  of  Middle  Tennessee,  having  settled  in  Cumberland 
County  in  1780,  the  date  at  which  Nashville  was  founded. 

His  ancestors  on  his  mother's  side  were  also  from  Virginia.  They  took  part  in  the  War 
of  the  Revolution,  and  came  to  Tennessee  at  the  beginning  of  the  present  century. 

He  entered  the  Class  second  term.  Freshman  year.  Attended  Cumberland  University  at 
Nashville  for  a  short  period  before  entering  Yale.  Has  been  engaged  in  practicing  law.  with 
the  exception  of  the  first  year  after  graduation,  when  he  taught  school.     In  1875  he  held  the 


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oftice  of  Special  Chancellor,  holding  court  in  Cheatham  County,  Tenn.  Has  occupied  the 
position  of  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Nashville  Bar  Association.  In  1886  he  was  a  can- 
didate for  the  office  of  Attorney-General  and  Reporter  for  the  State,  but  was  defeated. 
In  1893  was  appointed  Assignee  of  the  Nashville  Savings  Company,  a  large  banking  in.stitution, 
which  failed  during  the  financial  panic  of  that  year.  Was  a  member  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  Cumberland  River  Improvement  Association  in  1890-91.  Was  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  of  the  Nashville  Commercial  Club  appointed  to  secure  the  removal  by  the  General 
Assembly  of  the  State  Prison  from  within  the  corporate  limits  of  the  City  of  Nashville.  Was 
President  that  year  of  the  Andrew  Jackson  Democratic  Club.  In  1894  was  appointed  Special 
Judge  of  the  Circuit  and  Chancery  Courts  of  Davidson  County,  which  included  the  City  of 
Nashville.  Was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Educational  Society  of  the  Cum- 
berland Presbyterian  Church,  elected  by  its  General  Assembly  at  its  meeting  in  Birmingham, 
Ala.,  in  1896. 

Is  a  Ruling  Elder  of  the  ist  Church  of  that  denomination  at  Nashville.  Was  Secretary 
and  Treasurer  of  the  Tennessee  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  in  1896.  Is 
Vice-Recent  of  Old  Hickory  Council,  Roval  Arcanum.  From  1888  till  1896  was  in  partner- 
ship with  M.  T.  Bryan.  Was  chosen  a  delegate  to  the  convention  called  to  inaugurate  the 
celebration  of  the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  admission  of  Tennessee  into  the  Federal 
Union  in  1896. 

In  1881,  November  lOth,  he  married  Mary  Hart,  of  Nashville,  Tenn. 

CHILDREN. 

Mary  E.,  born  July  25th,  1882,  at  Nashville.  Tenn. 
Lauriza  A.,  bom  October  19th.  1883.  Nashville.  Tenn. 
Helen  T..  born  June  13th.  1886.  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Henry  Hart,  born  January  14th.  1888.  Nashville.  Tenn. 
Margaret  S..  born  March  26th.  1890,  Nashville,  Tenn 
Jacob  A.,  Jr..  born  April  30th,  1892,  Nashville.  Teno. 
All  his  children  are  attending  school  at  Nashville,  Tenn. 

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JOHN   HENRY    CHAPMAN. 

John  Henry  Chapman,  son  of  John  Brown  and  Mehitable  Wiggin  (Cochran)  Chapman, 
was  born  at  Nashua,  N.  H.,  September  14th,  1844.  He  fitted  for  College  at  Danbornton 
Bridge,  N.  H.,  and  entered  '67  March  9,  '66,  coming  from  Wesleyan  College. 

The  Chapmans  in  America  are  the  descendants  of  three  brothers  who  came  to  America 
from  England  in  the  17th  century.  The  ancestors  of  his  branch  settled  in  Massachusetts. 
For  many  generations  there  was  a  John  Chapman  in  the  family,  and  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
with  his  son  are  the  only  male  Chapmans  of  that  name  now  living. 

His  mother's  family  were  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  and  she  was  one  of  thiiteen  children, 
all  of  whom  lived  to  be  over  twenty  years  of  age.  Three  of  her  brothers  and  one  sisttr  settled 
in  Texas,  and  two  of  them  were  killed  in  the  Mexican  War. 

He  came  to  Yale  from  Wesleyan  University,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67,  March  9,  1866. 
Since  graduation,  from  1867  to  1888,  was  engaged  in  mercantile  business  at  his  home  m 
Nashua,  N.  H. 


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In  1888  he  removed  to  Sioux  Falls,  S.  Dak.,  and  engaged  in  the  Real  Estate  business. 
From  1891  to  1896  was  General  Agent  of  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Co.,  at 
that  place.  In  September,  1896.  he  removed  to  Deadwood,  S.  Dak.,  and  became  Special  Agent 
of  the  Northwestern  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Co.,  of  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

He  married  May  20th.  1869,  at  Nashua,  N.  H.,  Mary  J.  Cooke. 

CHILDREN. 

John  Cooke,  born  June  17th,  1874,  Nashua,  N.  H. 

Helen  Josepha.  born  September  4th,  1876.  Nashua,  N.  H. 

Emily  Kittredge.  born  June  14th,   1879.  Nashua.  N.  H. 

John  Cooke  graduated  at  the  Sioux  Falls  High  School  in  the  Class  of  1892.  He  is  now 
Chief  Clerk  in  the  office  of  Bradstreet's  Commercial  Agency  at  Sioux  Falls. 

Helen  J.  graduated  from  the  Sioux  Falls  High  School  in  the  Class  of  1896,  and  is  now 
engaged  in  teaching. 

Emily  K.  graduated  from  the  High  School  in  June,  1898. 

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HENRY    ABEL    CHITTENDEN. 

Henry  Abel  Chittenden,  son  of  Henry  Abel  and  Henrietta  (Gano)  Chittenden,  was 
born  at  Harttord,  Conn.,  April  nth,  1846.  He  fitted  for  College  under  H.  S.  Barnum,  at  the 
Guilford  Institute,  and  entered  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63. 

Mr.  Chittenden's  father  was  an  old-time  Abolitionist,  Philanthropist,  Temperance  Orator 
and  Second  Advent  lay  preacher,  and  also  a  well  known  New  York  Wholesale  Dry  Goods 
Merchant. 

His  mother's  father,  Major  Daniel  Gano,  was  the  first  white  child  born  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

The  following  account  of  his  life  since  graduation  is  from  his  own  pen: 

Henry  A.  Chittenden,  Jr.,  on  graduating  from  Yale  in  the  Class  of  '67,  made  an  extensive 
but  condensed  three  months'  tour  of  Great  Britain  and  the  Continent,  visiting  the  Paris  Ex- 
position.    Immediately  upon  his  return  he  entered  the  service  of  the  Brooklyn  "Daily  Union," 


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a  newspaper  founded  as  a  patriotic  enterprise  by  his  uncle,  S.  B.  Chittenden,  during  the  last 
days  of  the  War.  When  the  morning  edition  was  established  Mr.  Chittenden  became  its 
editor  (in  association  with  Edward  Cary,  editor-in-chief  and  editorial  founder  of  the 
"Union"),  remaining  in  that  position  for  two  years,  during  which  time  he  attended  the 
Columbia  Law  School,  under  Prof.  Theodore  Dwight,  upon  graduating  being  admitted  to  prac- 
tice in  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

He  then  entered  the  service  of  John  Russell  Young's  paper,  the  New  York  "Standard,"  as 
a  reporter,  soon  becoming  night  editor  and  then  editorial  writer.  Going  to  Alilwaukee  for 
his  health  on  a  visit  to  his  classmate,  James  G.  Flanders,  he  acquired  an  interest  in  the  Mil- 
waukee "Journal  of  Commerce,"  setting  up  a  domestic  establishment,  College-chum  fashion, 
with  Nelson  P.  Hulst.  He  was  joined  in  the  newspaper  enterprise  by  his  classmate.  William 
H.  Bishop,  and  the  commercial  weekly  became  a  political  daily,  the  "Commercial  Times." 

After  five  years  of  exciting  and  adventurous  experience,  which  was  shared  by  his  brother. 
Daniel  Gano  Chittenden,  he  merged  his  paper  with  its  venerable  Democratic  colleague,  the 
Milwaukee  "News,"  acquiring  a  third  interest,  which  he  ultimately  sold  to  Robertson  James, 
a  brother  of  the  novelist.  Henry  James,  and  retired  to  his  father's  home  in  New  Jersey  for  a 
year's  rest.  From  this  he  was  summoned  by  James  Gordon  Bennett  to  his  service  as  editor 
of  the  "Evening  Telegram."  He  remained  in  Mr.  Bennett's  service  for  fifteen  years,  several 
of  which  were  spent  in  various  capacities  on  the  "Herald." 

While  a  general  reporter  on  that  paper  Mr.  Chittenden  won  the  first  prize  of  $500  offered 
by  Mr.  Bennett  for  the  most  acceptable  editorial  paragraphs  written  by  "Herald"  reporters, 
during  the  space  of  six  months. 

In  1897,  owing  to  a  severe  attack  of  pneumonia,  Mr.  Chittenden  was  ordered  by  his 
physician  to  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  removed  with  his  family  to  Oakland,  Cal.,  in  September  of 
that  year,  entering  the  service  of  William  R.  Hearst,  on  the  San  Francisco  "Examiner." 
Prior  to  this  move  he  became  interested  as  associate  founder  with  Eaton  B.  Northrop,  his 
Milwaukee  newspaper  partner,  in  an  enterprise  based  upon  the  latters  discovery  in  Montana 
of  an  absolutely  unique  mineral,  capable  of  a  variety  of  uses  in  architecture  and  manufacturing, 
which  has  been  named  "Argellite." 

In  1888  ]Mr.  Chittenden  married  Mrs.  Alice  Westervelt  Goldsmith,  a  successful  newspaper 
and  magazine  writer.  A  son,  Gano  Westervelt  Chittenden,  was  born  November  9th,  1890. 
Although  no  competitor  of  the  Class  Boy,  he  is  now  well  on  his  way  to  Y'ale. 

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ABEL     STAUNTON     CLARK. 

Abel  Staunton  Clark,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Ann  (Byng)  Clark,  was  born  at  Stafford- 
shire, England.  November  i8th,  1840.  He  fitted  for  College  at  Gen'l  Russell's  School,  New 
Haven.  Conn.,  and  entered  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63. 

His  father,  Jonathan  Clark,  was  a  miner  by  occupation,  and  died  at  the  early  age  of  26. 
His  grandfather.  Thomas  Clark,  was  a  Welshman,  and  was  buried  in  Wrexham  Churchyard, 
where  Elihu  Yale  lies. 

On  his  mother's  side,  the  Stauntons  lived  for  two  centuries  or  more  at  Bromsgrove, 
Worcestershire,  and  his  grandmother,  Ann  Byng,  was  a  near  relative  of  Admiral  John  Byng, 
of  the  British  Navy,  a  martyr  to  political  persecution  in  1757. 

Since  graduation  has  been  instructor  in  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  Asylum  at  Hartford,  Conn. 

He  was  married  to  Nettie  A.  Piatt,  August  19th,  1869,  at  New  Haven,  Conn. 


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Lucy  Marietta,  born  May  15th,  1875,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Mabel  Esther,  born  October  3rd,  1878,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Sarah  Elizabeth,  born  June  nth.  1882,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Morris  Byng,  born  December  i8th.  1886.  Hartford,  Conn. 

Lucy  Marietta  graduated  from  the  Hartford  Public  High  School  in  the  Class  of  1894. 
She  taught  one  year  in  the  New  York  Institute  for  the  Deaf,  at  Washington  Heights,  New 
York  City,  and  two  years  in  the  American  School  for  the  Deaf  at  Hartford,  Conn. 

Mabel  Esther  left  school  at  fourteen  on  account  of  ill-health,  but  has  since  pursued  various 
lines  of  study. 

Sarah  Elizabeth  entered  the  Public  High  School  in  the  Fall  of  1897. 

Morris  Byng  attends  the  Public  School. 

Our  Classmate  spent  the  Summers  of  1881  and  1888  in  Great  Britain,  and  on  the  latter 
occasion  he  was  on  a  "camera  tour."  Has  had  one  severe  illness,  typhoid  fever,  in  October, 
1888,  which  laid  him  up  for  fifteen  weeks. 

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♦ELBERT  WILLETT  CLARKE. 

*Ei.BERT  WiLLETT  Clarke,  son  of  Elbert  Willett  and  Louise  (Steele)  Clarke,  was  born 
at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  November  25th,  1845,  and  died  September  24th,  1882. 

His  father,  Elbert  Willett  Clarke,  was  prepared  for  the  Ministry  by  his  uncle.  Rev.  Absa- 
lom Miner,  of  Rushford.  Allegany  County,  N.  Y.  He  was  Pastor  successively  of  Baptist 
churches  in  Sardinia,  Buffalo  (Cottage  Baptist)  and  in  Arcade,  N.  Y.  Failing  health  com- 
pelled him  to  give  up  his  Buffalo  pastorate  for  the  less  arduous  field  of  Arcade,  and  a  few 
years  later  he  there  finished  a  brief  but  brilliant  and  most  helpful  career  as  a  Minister. 

His  mother  was  Louise  Steele  Clarke,  of  Arcade,  N.  Y.,  daughter  of  a  Baptist  deacon. 
She  was  educated  at  Albion  Seminary,  Albion,  N.  Y.  Her  death  occurred  m  Grinnell,  la., 
less  than  a  year  ago. 

He  prepared  for  College  in  the  Academy  of  Oberlin  College,  and  completed  his  Freshman 
and  Sophomore  years  there,  entering  the  Junior  year  at  Yale  in  1866.     After  graduation  he 


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purchased  the  "Lorain  County  News,"  of  Oberlin,  Ohio,  publishing  it  for  two  years;  was 
editor  of  the  "Bellevue  Gazette,"  Bellevue,  Ohio,  for  e.ght  months,  and  then  purchased  the 
"Painesville  Advertiser,"  at  Painesville,  Lake  County,  Ohio,  where  he  spent  the  remaining 
twelve  years  of  his  life.  He  published  the  "Advertiser"  with  eminent  success,  taking  a  lead- 
ing place  among  the  editors  of  Northern  Ohio.  He  was  an  able  and  conscientious  writer. 
He  had  a  high  ideal  of  the  place  a  County  newspaper  should  fill,  and  to  the  last  was  enlarging 
his  own  mind  and  gleaning  from  the  experience  of  others  that  he  might  do  his  work  more 
thoroughly.  He  was  actively  interested  in  public  affairs,  and  in  Church,  Sabbath  School  and 
as  President  of  the  Young  Alens  Christian  Association,  a  ]SIember  of  the  Republican  Central 
Committee  and  of  the  Order  of  Masons.  He  was  above  all  things  a  true  Christian  gentle- 
man. Failing  health  attended  the  last  years  of  his  publication  of  the  "Advertiser,"  and  on 
September  24th,  1882,  at  the  age  of  36  years,  he  was  called  higher.  His  body  was  laid  to 
rest  beside  that  of  his  father  in  Arcade  Cemetery,  amidst  the  scenes  where  as  a  boy  he  used 
to  play. 

In  1870,  September  7th,  he  married  Miss  Nellie  Green,  of  West  Lebanon,  Ind. 


Elbert  James,  born  November  6th,  187 1,  Painesville,  Ohio. 

Nellie  G.,  bom  August  ist,  1879,  Grinnell,  Iowa. 

Elbert  James  pursued  his  studies  through  the  Junior  year  in  Iowa  College,  Grinnell,  Iowa, 
and  in  Stanford  University,  California,  where  he  went  for  his  health's  sake.  He  is  engaged 
in  tuning  and  selling  pianos  in  Grinnell,  low^a.  He  was  married  to  Miss  L.  Elizabeth  Russell, 
December  loth,  1896,  and  they  have  a  son,  Elbert  Russell  Clarke. 

Nellie  G.  is  in  the  Sophomore  year  in  the  Classical  Course  of  Iowa  College,  Grinnell, 
Iowa.  She  is  also  in  the  Conservatory  of  Music  of  Iowa  College,  this  being  her-  second  year 
of  vocal  training. 

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CHARLES    GOODRICH    COE. 

Charles  Goodrich  Coe,  son  of  Samuel  Goodrich  Coe  (Yale,  1838)  and  Grace  IngersoU 
(Hawley)  Coe,  was  born  at  Ridgefield.  Conn.,  August  i8th,  1846.  He  fitted  for  Yale  under 
Dr.  James  M.  Whiten  at  the  Hotchkiss  Grammar  School,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  entered 
the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

His  father  was  Samuel  Goodrich  Coe ;  he  was  a  graduate  of  Yale  College  of  the  Class  of 
1838,  and  a  graduate  of  the  Yale  Law  School  and  Yale  Theological  Seminary.  He  was  Pastor 
of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Middlebury,  Vt.,  from  1844  to  1851,  and  at  Danbury,  Conn., 
from  1851  to  1864:  he  preached,  although  declining  to  be  settled  as  Pastor,  at  Ridgefield, 
Conn.,  from  1864  to  1868,  and  afterwards  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  for  six  months.  He  died  in 
December,  1869,  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  in  the  fiftieth  year  of  his  age,  and  is  buried  in  the  old 
Cemetery  at  New  Haven,  Conn. 


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His  paternal  grandfather  was  also  a  Congregational  minister.  His  name  was  Noah  Coe. 
and  he  was  born  at  Durham,  Conn.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  the  class  of  1806  and  of  the 
Yale  Theological  School.  He  was  settled  as  pastor,  first  at  New  Hartford,  New  York,  and  re- 
moved to  New  Haven  to  educate  his  two  sons  for  Yale.  His  two  sons  were  Charles  Goodrich 
Coe's  father.  Rev.  Samuel  G.  Coe,  and  his  uncle,  Frederick  A.  Coe,  who  graduated  in  the  fam- 
ous class  of  1837,  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine,  and  later  a  dis- 
tinguished lawyer  in  New  York  City  and  a  member  of  the  then  prominent  firm  of  Marsh,  Coe 
&  Wallis.     Noah  Coe  died  in  the  year  1870,  aged  83. 

The  mother  of  Charles  Goodrich  Coe  was  Grace  Ingersoll  Hawley,  of  Ridgefield,  Conn. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Catherine  Hawley.  who  before  marrying  was  Catherine  King,  the 
daughter  of  General  Joshua  King,  of  Ridgefield.  Conn.,  who  during  the  Revolutionary  War 
was  a  Lieutenant  in  Sheldon's  Dragoons  and  afterwards  General  in  the  Connecticut  Militia. 
His  mother,  Grace  Ingersoll  Hawle\',  was  a  relative  of  the  Ingersolls  of  New  Haven  and  of 
Grace  Ingersoll.  from  whom  she  was  named.     His  mother  is  still  alive  at  an  advanced  age. 

After  graduating  at  Yale,  he  entered  the  Columbia  Law  School,  graduating  in  the  Class  of 
1869.  Since  that  time  he  has  practiced  law  continuously  in  the  City  of  New  York,  devoting 
himself  especially  to  patent  and  trade  mark  law.  Was  a  partner  with  Louis  W.  Frost  until 
his  death  in  December,  1891,  and  since  then  has  practiced  without  a  partner.  He  has  offices 
with  Mr.  James  K.  Averill.  who  for  two  years  was  at  Yale  in  the  Class  of  1869.  On  October 
i6th,  1879,  he  married  Annie  A.  Karr,  daughter  of  James  B.  Karr.  of  New  York  City.  They 
have  no  children. 

On  his  father's  side,  Charles  Goodrich  Coe  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Nathaniel  Chauncey, 
the  first  graduate  of  Yale  in  the  Class  of  1702. 

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*CHARLES     TERRY  COLLINS. 

*Charles  Terry  Collins,  son  of  Charles  and  Mary  (Terry)  Collins,  was  born  at  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  October  14th,  1845.     Died  in  New  York  City,  December  21st,  1883. 

He  fitted  for  College  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  and  entered  '67  in  the  Summer  of 
"63.  His  father,  Charles  Collins,  was  engaged  in  the  Wholesale  Drygoods  business  in  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  until  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  when  he  removed  his  business  to  New  York  City. 
Mr.  Collins  was  well  known  in  the  business  circles  of  Ne\v  York  for  his  staunch  integrity,  the 
high  tone  of  his  character  and  his  wise  conduct  of  affairs.  He  was  selected  as  one  of  the 
"struck  jury"  empaneled  to  try  William  M.  Tweed.  Mr.  Collins  was  a  man  who  "left  his 
footprints"  wherever  he  resided  and  commanded  admiring  respect. 

Charles  Terry  Collins  was  seventh  in  direct  descent  from  our  honored  Governor  William 
Bradford,  first  Governor  of  the  Colonies:  also  in  lineal  descent  from  Right  Hon.  Sir  Paul 
Tracey,  Lord  of  Toddington,  in  Gloucestershire,  England. 


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Inheriting  the  strong  characteristics  of  his  New  England  ancestry,  Charles  Terry  Collins 
went  into  life  imbued  with  a  mighty  purpose,  to  live  for  God  and  to  work  in  His  vineyard. 
Was  graduated  from  the  Hartford  High  School,  with  a  high  grade  of  scholarship ;  he  entered 
Yale  College  in  1863  and  was  graduated  in  1867.  He  went  to  Europe  to  pass  a  year  before 
entering  upon  his  life-work.  Going  direct  to  Berlin,  he  had  unusual  facilities  for  acquiring 
the  German  language  in  the  family  of  Dr.  Goldbich.  of  the  University;  he  then  became  a 
student  at  Heidelberg,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1868.  Upon  his  return  to  this  country,  in 
1868,  he  commenced  his  theological  studies  at  Union  Seminary,  New  York,  where  he  re- 
mained but  a  year,  finishing  his  theological  course  at  Andover  Seminary,  where  he  was 
graduated  in  1871.  After  a  few  months  passed  in  Europe  he  returned  to  his  father's  house  in 
New  York  City.  Was  ordained  to  the  Gospel  ministry.  December  21st,  1871,  and  accepted 
an  invitation  to  take  charge  of  Olivet  Chapel,  a  mission  church,  as  his  parents  utterly  refused 
consent  to  his  going  to  a  foreign  mission-field.  Here  he  entered  heartily  into  the  work  of 
educating  those  ignorant  ones  up  to  a  higher  plane  of  living.  Three  years  of  exhausting  labor 
were  spent  in  this  mission  church.  He  threw  himself  with  all  the  force  of  his  enthusiastic 
nature  into  his  work.  The  wretchedness  with  which  he  was  in  constant  contact  was  a 
stimulus  to  his  untiring  zeal.  He  refused  to  think  of  himself,  or  that  rest  which  sooner  or 
later  must  be  a  necessity.  In  the  Pulpit,  in  damp  cellars,  in  heated  garrets,  by  the  bedside 
of  the  sick  and  dying,  in  Court  and  in  Prison,  he  spent  his  strength  and  life  in  an  almost 
ceaseless  toil,  with  the  tax  upon  his  sj'mpathies,  the  burden  of  others'  sorrows  which,  he 
writes,  "Eats  into  my  soul  and  tortures  it,"  was  more  than  he  could  bear,  and  in  the  Summer 
of  1874  he  was  utterly  prostrated,  and  went  with  his  wife  and  son  to  Scotland  to  recuperate 
his  almost  exhausted  powers. 

Returning  to  this  country  in  November.  1874,  declining  many  most  flattering  calls  to  City 
churches,  he  accepted  the  call  to  Plymouth  Congregational  Church,  of  Cleveland;  Ohio,  and 
was  installed  as  their  pastor,  January.  1875. 

Mr.  Collins  married  Miss  Mary  Abbie  Wood,  at  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  December  26th,  1872. 

His  pastoral  work  in  Cleveland  was  nine  years  of  intense  enthusiastic  labor,  and  his  mem- 
ory is  tenderly  cherished  in  Cleveland,  as  well  as  in  that  Church  for  whose  welfare  he  gave 
his  life.  After  a  short  but  severe  illness  he  left  Cleveland.  December  20th.  1883,  to  rest  his 
exhausted  frame  in  the  quiet  of  the  paternal  home  in  Yonkers,  but  the  call  to  come  up  higher 
came  before  he  reached  that  earthly  home.  "He  was  not,  for  God  took  him"  December  21st. 
1883,  and  sorrowing  hearts  and  loving  hands  laid  him  to  rest  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery  in 
Hartford,  Conn.,  upon  the  eleventh  anniversary  of  his  wedding. 

Mrs.  Charles  Terry  Collins  resides  in  New  Haven.  Conn.,  where  she  went  to  educate  her 
three  sons  at  Yale  University.  She  passed  the  years  1889-1890  in  Germany  to  perfect  her 
children  in  the  German  language. 

CHILDREN. 

Charles  (Carl),  born  October  14th,  1873,  New  York  City. 
Clarence  Lyman,  born  March  19th,  1875,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

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Mary  Terry,  born  May  26th.  1877,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Arthur  Morris,  born  November  4th,  1880,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Charles  (Carl)  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1896.  He  took  a  high  stand  in 
College.  In  July  of  1896  he  accepted  the  position  of  tutor  to  prepare  his  pupil  to  enter  Yale 
College,  and  went  with  the  family  to  Europe  for  a  year  of  travel,  returning  to  this  country 
August,  1897.  Carl  entered  the  office  of  Peabody  &  Sharus,  Boston,  where  he  is  preparing 
for  the  profession  of  Architect. 

Clarence  Lyman  prepared  for  College  in  the  High  School  at  Yonkers,  and  was  graduated 
from  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  June,  1896,  and  became  a  student  in  the  Columbia 
School  of  Mines,  for  a  higher  course  than  Yale  now  offers.  He  graduated  from  Columbia. 
June,  1897,  and  accepted  a  position  in  the  Electric  Light  Company  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  where 
he  now  resides. 

Mary  Terry  resides  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Arthur  Morris  is  now  a  student  at  the  High  School  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  preparing 
to  enter  Yale  University. 

COLLEGE   SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Phi  Theta  Psi,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key.  High  Oration. 


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STRONG    COMSTOCK. 

Strong  Comstock,  son  of  James  and  Harriet  (Betts)  Comstock,  was  born  at  Wilton, 
Conn.,  March  27th,  1844.  He  fitted  for  college  at  Wilton  Academy  and  entered  Yale  in  the 
Summer  of  '63.  His  father  was  a  merchant.  He  is  in  the  eighth  generation  from  Frederic 
Komstohk,  of  Frankfort,  Germany,  who  married  Mary  McDonald,  of  Edinburgh,  Scotland. 
Their  third  son  came  to  Fairfield,  Conn.,  in  1652,  and  nine  years  later  to  Norwalk,  Conn. 

The  maternal  line  can  be  traced  seven  generations  to  Thomas  Bills,  who  came  here  in 
1639. 

Since  graduation  he  has  been  engaged  in  teaching.  From  1867  to  1870,  and  from  1872  to 
1890  was  principal  of  the  Academy  and  Union  School  at  Walton,  New  York.  For  two  years, 
1870-72.  he  taught  in  An=onia,  Conn.,  and  since  1894  has  had  charge  of  the  Balmforth  Ave- 
nue School  in  Danbury,  Conn. 

He  married  Miss  Martha  J.  Atwood,  of  Moravia,  N.  Y.,  December  29th,  1870. 


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Leonard  Atwood,  born  November  21st,  1871,  Ansonia,  Conn. 

Mary  Raymond,  born  May  28th,  1874,  Walton.  N.  Y. 

Hattie  Betts,  born  July  3d,  1876,  Walton,  N.  Y. 

Georgianna.  born  September  9th,  1878,  Walton,  N.  Y. 

James,  born  August  7th,  1880,  Walton.  N.  Y. 

His  wife  died  in  May,  1894.  at  Cooperstown,  X.  Y.  She  was  a  woman  of  strong  in- 
tellectual character,  possessing  in  a  remarkable  degree  the  ability  to  impart  knowledge  and  at 
the  same  time  to  inspire  the  pupil  with  a  love  for  his  work. 

Leonard  Atwood  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  the  Class  of  '95. 

Mary  Raymond  graduated  from  the  Cooperstown  Academy  and  Union  School  in  1892. 

Hattie  Betts  graduated  from  Vassar  College  in  1897. 

Georgianna  and  James  are  pursuing  their  studies  at  their  father's  school  in  Danbury, 
Conn.    The  latter  expects  to  go  to  Yale. 

COLLEGE   SOCIETIES,    HONORS,   R.\NK. 

Linonia,  Gamma  Nu,  Alpha  Delta  Phi. 


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LESTER    CURTIS. 


Lester  Curtis,  born  at  Winfield,  N.  Y.,  October  29th,  1842.  Entered  the  Class  at  the 
beginning  of  the  Sophomore  year.  Since  graduating  has  studied  one  year  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.  During  the  Winter  and.  Spring  of  1868  he  filled  the  position  of  assistant  to  the  Profes- 
sor of  Anatomy  in  the  Yale  Medical  School.  The  Winter  of  1868-69  was  spent  in  study  in 
New  York  City.  In  the  Spring  of  1869  he  went  to  Chicago,  III.,  and  graduated  the  following 
Spring.  Next  year  and  a  half  he  spent  as  resident  physician  at  Cook  Co.  Hospital,  in 
Chicago,  111.  Since  that  time  has  been  engaged  in  private  practice.  In  the  Spring  of  1872  he 
received  the  appointment  as  lecturer  in  the  Chicago  Medical  College.  Was  also  appointed  Pro- 
fessor of  Pathology  in  the  Woman's  Medical  College.  This  position  he  held  until  the  Fall  of 
1875.  The  Summer  of  1874  he  spent  in  Europe.  In  the  Fall  of  1875  he  was  appointed  Assist- 
ant Professor  of  Physiology  and  Histology  in  the  same  institute. 


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WILLIAM  BATES  DAVENPORT. 

William  Bates  Davenport,  son  of  Julius  and  Mary  Ann  (Bates)  Davenport,  was  born 
in  New  York  City,  March  loth,  1847.  His  father  in  the  earlier  years  of  his  life  was  a  teacher 
residing  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  from  1852  to  1892  was  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business 
in  that  city. 

On  the  maternal  side  of  the  house  he  is  descended  from  Joris  Van  Alst,  who  settled  at 
Flushing  Bay,  Long  Island,  in  1636.  On  his  father's  side  he  is  descended  in  the  eighth  genera- 
tion from  John  Davenport,  founder  of  New  Haven,  who  was  educated  at  Alagdalen  College, 
Oxford,  England,  and  his  grandson,  John  Davenport  (Harvard,  1687),  who  was  a  fellow  of 
Yale  1714-1731. 

He  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic,  and  under  Prof.  J.  C.  Overheiser,  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  entered  '67  in  July,  1863. 


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He  left  the  Class  at  the  close  of  Sophomore  year,  and  went  immediately  to  the  South- 
west, where  he  was  connected  for  nearly  a  year  with  the  U.  S.  Sanitary  Commission  and  the 
Quartermaster's  Department  of  the  Department  of  East  Tennessee. 

Returning  to  New  York,  he  became  Cashier  of  the  Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Company 
of  that  city  from  1866  to  1868.  Then  was  in  the  real  estate  business  1869- 1870,  during  which 
time  he  studied  law.  Was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  December  15th,  1870,  since 
which  time  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law.  February  20th,  1889.  was  appointed 
Public  Administrator  of  the  County  of  Kings,  N.  Y.,  and  on  March  13th.  1894,  and  again  in 
April,  1899,  was  reappointed  to  the  same  office. 

In  1893  was  elected  a  member  ai  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  the  State  of  New 
York,  which  convened  at  Albany  in  May,  1894,  and  adopted  a  new  Constitution  of  the  State. 
He  served  in  that  body  as  a  member  of  the  Committee  on  Cities  and  on  Corporations.  Is  Presi- 
dent of  the  Polhemus  Memorial  Clinic,  Director  in  the  American  District  Telegraph  Company, 
Trustee  of  the  People's  Trust  Company,  of  Brooklyn,  and  Trustee  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Brooklyn  Institute  of  Arts  and  Sciences.  Was  President  of  the  Brooklyn  New  England  So- 
ciety 1897- 1898,  President  of  the  Polytechnic  Institute  Alumni  Association,  and  President  of 
the  Long  Island  Yale  Alumni  Association  for  two  terms,  from  March.  1896,  to  March,  1898. 
Has  traveled  extensively  both  in  this  country  and  abroad,  visiting  Europe  in  the  years  1878, 
1881,  1885.  1888,  1889,  1891  and  1892,  visited  Cuba  in  1880,  Bermuda  in  1888,  made  a  tour  to 
Japan  in  1895  and  has  traveled  to  the  Pacific  Coast  in  the  years  1889,  1893  and  1895.  He  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  M.  A.  from  Yale  in  1887  and  on  June  26,  1896,  by  a  vote  of  the  Faculty  of 
Yale  College,  his  name  was  transferred  from  the  list  of  the  graduates  of  the  honorary  degree 
to  the  College  Class  of  '67.    He  has  been  present  at  every  Class  Reunion. 

He  has  married  twice.  His  first  wife  was  Carrie  C.  Peckham.  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  whom 
he  married  June  4th.  1868,  and  who  died  December  nth,  1871,  at  Brooklyn.  N.  Y. , 

On  September  9th,  1874,  he  married  Charlotte  C.  Shepherd,  of  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

CHILDREN. 

Edith  Hoxie,  born  June  8th,  1870,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  died  June  5th,  1872,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Florence,  born  November  ist,  1882,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  died  May  29th,  1884.  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

COLLEGE   SOCIETIES^   HONORS,   KANK. 

Brothers.  Delta  Kappa,  Honorary  Wolf's  Head  1897. 


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*  THEODORE  LANSING  DAY. 

♦Theodore  Lansing  Day,  son  of  Robert  Lansing  and  Mary  Ann  (Goddard)  Day,  was 
born  at  Boston,  Mass.,  September  i8th,  1845,  and  died  Tune  27th,  1885,  at  South  Framingham. 
Mass. 

He  was  descended  from  Ralph  Day,  who  settled  in  Dedham,  Mass.,  in  the  year  1645,  hav- 
ing come  from  Devonshire  County,  England. 

On  his  maternal  side  of  the  house  he  is  descended  from  the  Goddards,  who  settled  in 
Watertown,  Mass.,  about  the  year  1640,  coming  from  England.  His  mother's  ancestry  is 
traced  back  in  a  direct  line  to  John  Rogers,  the  martyr. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  by  Thomas  D.  Adams,  of  Newton,  Mass.,  and  entered  '67  in 
the  Summer  of  '63. 

On  graduating,  he  spent  two  years  at  the  Andover  Theological  Seminarj,  and  during 
1870-71  studied  at  Yale  while  tutoring  in  Latin.     Was  graduated  from  the  Seminary  in  May, 


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iS/i.  He  continued  tutor  until  July,  1872,  wh^n  he  received  a  call  and  was  settled  over  the 
First  Church  in  Holyoke,  Mass.,  December,  1872.  In  May,  1874,  he  resigned  his  pastorate.  In 
the  Fall  of  the  same  year  he  received  and  declined  a  call  to  the  Congregational  Church  in  Guil- 
ford. Mass.  In  1875-76  his  health  was  extremely  poor,  and  in  the  Winter  of  1876-77  he  went 
to  Florida  for  relief,  returning  to  his  home  in  South  Frammgham,  Mass.,  in  the  Fall  of  1877, 
greatly  improved  in  health  and  bodily  vigor.  In  February,  1879,  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  Con- 
gregational Church  in  Talcottville,  Conn.,  where  he  resided  until  1883,  when  he  received  a 
call  to  the  Congregational  Church  at  Saxonville,  Mass.  This  was  his  last  pastoral  call.  He 
died  on  the  27th  day  of  June.  1885.  after  only  a  two  weeks"  illness,  of  congestion  of  the  brain. 
Six  months  before  his  death  he  rested  from  all  work,  hoping  to  regain  his  health,  which  at 
times  had  been  precarious,  and  he  went  to  South  Framingham,  his  home. 

In  a  letter  to  the  Secretary  in  the  year  1882  he  wrote : 

"As  the  years  go  by,  learning  and  fame  seem  of  less  account  to  me,  and  friends  seem 
dearer.  I  have  an  increasing  interest  in  the  prosperity  of  my  classmates,  and  am  always  de- 
lighted to  meet  them." 

Was  married  to  Nettie  T.  Eastburn,  New  Haven.  Conn.,  May  13,  1873. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  Gamma  Nu  and  Alpha  Delta  Phi.  Took  the  Hurlburt  Scholarship  Freshman 
year;  third  prize  English  Composition  second  term  Sophomore,  Clark  Classical  Essay  Junior 
year.  Philosophical  Oration  Junior  Appointment,  Salutatory  Senior  year,  rank  3.46  Phi  Beta 
Kappa. 


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ROBERT  ELLIOTT  DE  FOREST. 

Robert  Elliott  de  Forest,  son  of  George  C.  Griswold  and  Julia  (Chapman)  Griswold, 
was  born  at  Guilford,  Conn.,  February  20th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  Yale  under  Henry  S.  Barnum,  at  the  Guilford  Institute,  Guilford,  Conn.,  and 
entered  the  class  of  %^  in  the  Summer  of  '63. 

His  father  was  a  farmer.  Upon  graduation  he  taught  school  at  Royalton.  Vt.,  studied  law, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  1868.  Located  in  the  City  of  Bridgeport,  Conn  ,  where  he  has 
since  practiced  his  profession.  In  1872  he  was  appointed  prosecuting  attorney  for  the  City  of 
Bridgeport ;  in  1874  he  was  elected  by  the  Legislature  of  Connecticut  Judge  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas  for  Fairfield  County,  which  position  he  held  for  three  years.  In  1878  he  was 
elected  Mayor  of  Bridgeport,  which  office  he  held  till  1880,  when  he  was  elected  to  the  Legis- 
lature. In  1882  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate ;  was  Corporation  Counsel  for  the  City  of 
Bridgeport,  and  was  elected  Mayor  in  1889  and  re-elected  in  1890;  was  elected  to  the  Fifty- 


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second  and  re-elected  to  the  Fifty-third  Congress  as  a  Democrat,  receiving  24,035  votes,  against 
21,835  for  Frederick  Miles,  Republican,  892  votes  for  W.  R.  Miles  and  29  votes  for  Bel- 
den — People's. 

He  is  senior  warden  of  Trinity  Parish. 

He  married  Rebecca  B.  Marcy,  October  18th,  1871,  at  Green  Island,  N.  Y. 

CHILDREN. 

Frederic  Marcy,  born  August  10.  1872,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Robert  Griswold,  born  August  7,  1878,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
John  Bellows,  born  Sept.  13,  1883,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Frederic  Marcy  graduated  from  Yale  in  the  Class  of  1895  and  is  now  practicing  law  with 
his  father. 

Robert  Griswold  and  John  Bellows  are  still  students  in  the  Bridgeport  High  School. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,  HONORS,  RANK. 

Brothers,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Delta  Beta  Chi  and  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Honorary  Wolf's  Head 
1897.  Second  prize  English  Composition  third  term  Sophomore;  third  prize  Brothers'  Senior 
Debate ;  first  prize  Declamation  third  term  Sophomore.     Second  Dispute. 


ISO 


HENRY    MORTON    DEXTER. 

Henry  Morton  Dexter,  son  of  Henry  Martyn  Dexter  (Yale.  1840)  and  Emeline  Au- 
gusta (Palmer)  Dexter,  was  born  at  Manchester,  New  Hampshire.  July  12th.  1846.  Was  fitted 
for  college  at  the  Latin  School.  Roxbury,  Mass.,  under  Augustus  H.  Buck. 

Is  in  the  eighth  generation  from  John  Alden  and  Priscilla  (Mullins)  Alden,  of  the  "May- 
flower," and  the  ninth  from  George  Morton,  also  of  the  Plymouth  Colony,  on  his  father's  side. 
Also  the  ninth  from  Thomas  Dexter,  one  of  the  first  settlers  in  1630,  of  Saugus,  Mass. 

On  his  mother's  side  is  in  the  eighth  generation  from  William  Palmer,  who  came  to 
Plymouth  with  his  father  in  1621,  in  the  "Fortune,"  and  again  the  ninth  generation  from  John 
and  Priscilla  Alden. 

On  graduating  studied  theology  at  Andover,  Mass.,  1867-70,  residing  in  Boston  after  com- 
pleting his  studies.  From  1870-72  he  spent  his  time  in  foreign  travel  in  Europe  and  the  East. 
Was  ordained  April  30th,  1873,  and  on  the  1st  of  May  received  and  accepted  the  call  to  the 


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Union  Congregational  Church  at  Taunton,  Mass.  This  position  he  held  till  November,  1878. 
when  he  resigned  to  become  associate  editor  of  the  "Congregationalist."  December  ist,  1878. 

This  position  he  has  retained  ever  since.  In  November,  1890.  he  became  one  of  the  pro- 
prietors of  the  paper,  the  firm  name  being  W.  L.  Greene  &  Co.  His  position  on  the  paper  is 
that  of  literary  editor. 

During  the  past  ten  years  he  has  resided  during  the  Winter  at  Boston,  having  a  Summer 
home  at  the  seashore  near  Boston.  For  a  year  or  two  he  resided  at  New  Bedford.  Has  given 
considerable  attention  to  Pilgrim  and  early  Colonial  history  as  a  sort  of  specialty.  In  1894  he 
wrote  a  book  for  young  people  about  the  Pilgrims,  called  "  The  Story  of  the  Pilgrims,"  which 
had  a  successful  sale.  In  iSgo  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  original  Board  of  Directors  of  the 
Yale  University  Alumni,  in  which  capacity  he  served  for  over  three  years,  when  he  re- 
signed and  George  Adee  took  his  place. 

In  1895  he  was  elected  to  membership  in  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society.  Has  trav- 
eled extensively  abroad  in  the  years  1876-1878:  and  again  in  1851  and  1896.  In  1891  he  was  a 
delegate  appointed  by  the  National  Council  of  the  Congregational  Church  of  the  United  States 
to  the  International  Congregational  Council  held  in  London  in  July  of  that  year. 

Was  alio  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  National  Councils  Committee  on  the  Memorial 
of  John  Robinson,  and  took  part  in  the  work  of  securing  the  bronze  tablet  in  his  honor,  and  in 
the  public  exercises  at  its  unveiling  at  St.  Peter's  Church,  in  Leyden,  Holland,  on  July  2|th. 
1891.     In  1896  he  visited  Rome  and  Naples  in  Italy,  and  Algiers,  Holland  and  France. 

Was  married  June  9.h,  1881,  to  Emily  Loud  Sanford.  of  Taunton,  Mass..  and  has  two 
children. 

CHILDREN. 

Marjory  Morton,  born  September  4th.  1882.  Boston,  Mass. 

Mary,  born    August   12th.    1886.   Boston,   Mass. 

Both  have  attended  private  schools  in  Boston  and  New  Bedford,  Mass.  The  elder  is  now 
attending  St.  Timothy's  School.  Catonsville.  Md. 

His  Boston  address  is  387  Marlborough  .street.  Boston.  Mass.  His  residence  since  1895 
has  also  been  at  "Greystones"  in  New  Bedford.  Mass.  This  was  his  father's  home,  the  prop- 
erty belonging  to  his  estate. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES.    HONORS.    R.^NK. 

Brothers.  Gamma  Nu.  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones.  Excellence  in  Latin  Prose  Com- 
position Freshman  year;  second  prize  second  term  Sophomore  (English  Composition)  ;  third 
prize  Sophomore.     Yale  Lit.  Medal  Junior  year.     Dissertation. 


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IRA  SEYMOUR  DODD. 

Ira  Seymour  Dodd,  son  of  Moses  Woodruff  Dodd  (Princeton,  '^y)  and  Rachel  (Hoe) 
Dodd,  was  born  at  Bloomfield.  N.  J.,  November  2d,  1842.  Was  fitted  for  college  by  James  H. 
Rundell,  at  Bloomfield,  N.  J. 

His  father.  Moses  Woodruff  Dodd.  was  a  student  at  Princeton  College  in  1837. 

For  many  years  a  publisher  in  New  York  City,  he  was  the  founder  of  the  house  now  rep- 
resented by  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.,  in  which  two  of  the  partners  are  his  sons. 

He  is  descended  on  his  father's  side  from  Daniel  Dodd,  who  came  from  the  north  of 
England  with  the  early  Puritan  emigration  and  settled  in  what  is  now  Connecticut.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  New  Haven  Colony,  and  from  that  place  there  was  an  emigration  to  New 
Jersey,  by  which  Newark,  Elizabeth,  Orange  and  Bloomfield  were  settled.  His  ancestors  were 
among  the  first  settlers  of  Bloomfield,  which  is  his  native  place.  Through  the  wife  of  his 
grandfather,   Ira  Dodd.  he  inherits  an  infusion  of  Dutch  blood,  otherwise  his  English  an- 


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cestry  is  pure.  His  grandfather's  brother.  Rev.  Stephen  Dodd,  was  for  many  years  pastor  of 
a  church  at  East  Haven.  Conn.  On  his  mother's  side  he  is  descended  from  Robert  Hoe,  who 
came  to  this  country  from  England  in  his  young  manhood.  His  son,  Richard  M.  Hoe,  was  the 
inventor  of  the  cylinder  press,  and  with  his  brothers  formed  the  firm  of  R.  Hoe  &  Co.  His 
mother  was  a  sister  of  the  Hoe  brothers.  She  died  last  Spring,  aged  79.  Through  her  mother 
he  is  connected  with  another  line  of  Puritan  ancestry,  one  of  whom,  the  Rev.  Solomon  Mead, 
was  for  fifty  years,  and  during  the  Revolutionary  War,  pastor  of  the  church  at  South  Salem, 
N.  Y.,  on  the  Connecticut  border. 

After  graduation  from  college  he  entered  upon  theological  study,  and  was  two  years  at 
Princeton,  where  he  graduated,  and  one  year  at  Union  Theological  Seminary.  Since  then  he 
has  been  constantly  in  the  work  of  the  ministry  of  the  Presbyterian  Church — iwo  years,  from 
1870  to  1872,  at  Garnett,  Kans. ;  nine  years,  from  1872  to  1881,  at  Winnebago  City,  Minnesota; 
fifteen  years,  from  1882  to  the  present  time,  at  Riverdale,  New  York  City,  as  pastor  of  the 
Riverdale  Presbyterian  Church. 

He  was  married  to  Louise  S.  Morley  at  Marlins,  N.  Y.,  April  28,  1870. 

CHILDREN. 

Mary,  born  October  3,  1871,  Garnett,  Kan. 

Catherine  Smith,  born  February  21,  1873,  at  Winnebago  City,  Minn. 

Frank  Courtenay,  born  January  19,  1875,  at  Winnebago  City,  Minn. 

His  two  daughters  received  their  education  partly  in  private  schools  and  mainly  in  the 
Yonkers  High  School,  with  supplementary  study  at  home. 

His  son,  Frank  Courtenay,  graduated  at  the  Yonkers  High  School  in  1892.  Went  into 
business  in  the  Fifth  Avenue  Bank  of  New  York  for  a  year,  entered  Yale  University  in  1893 
and  graduated  in  1897.  Immediately  after  graduation  he  went  into  business  and  is  in. the 
employ  of  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.,  publishers,  149-151  Fifth  avenue.  New  York  City. 

None  of  his  children  are  married. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,  HONORS,  RANK. 

Brothers,  Delta  Kappa  and  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Spade  and  Grave,  Honorary  Wolf's  Head 
1892. 


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*  FREDERICK  RICHARD  SEWARD  DRAKE. 

♦Frederick  Richard  Seward  Drake,  son  of  Frederick  A.  and  Mary  H.  (Seward)  Drake, 
was  born  at  Windsor,  Conn.,  Aug.  31st,  1846.  Was  fitted  for  college  by  A.  Talcott,  M.  D.,  at 
Guilford,  Conn.    His  ancestors  were  among  the  first  settlers  of  Windsor,  Conn. 

Left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  the  Freshman  year.  Afterwards  was  in  '68  one  term.  Since 
leaving  college,  he  has  resided  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  traveled  somewhat  in  Europe,  and  for 
three  years  studied  medicine  in  New  York  City,  obtaining  the  degree  of  M.  D.  Was  House 
Physician  at  the  Hartford  Hospital  in  1869;  House  Physician  at  the  Charity  Hospital,  New 
York  City,  from  1870  to  1871.  Graduated  in  the  Medical  Department  of  the  University  olf  the 
City  of  New  York  in  1871.  Was  Attending  Physician  of  the  department  of  outdoor  poor  at 
Bellevue  Hospital,  New  York  City,  from  1871  to  1874;  Curator  to  the  Charity  Hospital,  New 
York  City,  from  1871  to  1875 ;  Assistant  to  the  Chair  of  Practice  of  Medicine  in  the  University 
of  the  City  of  New  York  since  1872;  Visiting  Physician  to  the  Charity  Hospital,  New  York 


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City,  since  1874:  Attending  Physician  at  the  Dispensary.  Church  of  the  Holy  Communion, 
New  York  City,  since  1872 ;  Secretary  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  Medical  Department  of 
the  University  of  the  City  of  New  York  since  1875 ;  was  taken  down  with  severe  attack  of 
diphJitria  in  1874;  is  the  clinical  lecturer  on  Practice  of  Medicine  in  the  Medical  Department 
of  the  University  of  the  City  of  New  York ;  Visiting  Physician  of  Bellevue  Hospital ;  President 
of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  ^fedical  Department  of  the  New  York  University  from  1885 
to  1887;  Consulting  Physician,  outdoor  poor  department,  Bellevue  Hospital.  1886;  Consulting 
Physician,  Dispensary.  Universit\'  Medical  College.  1885. 

Received  the  degree  of  M.  A.  from  Yale  College  in  1883. 

Doctor  Drake  died  at  his  home  on  the  9th  of  March,  1888.  after  a  short  illness,  from  an  at- 
tack of  quinsy,  complicated  with  some  heart  trouble.  His  friends  and  classmates  had  watched 
with  pleasure  his  rapid  progress  and  distinguished  success  in  his  profession,  and  were  expecting 
for  him  a  long  and  brilliant  career.  It  seems  peculiarly  sad  that  so  promising  a  life  should  have 
come  to  such  an  untimely  end. 

He  was  married  to  Catherine  E.  Fyfe  at  New  York  City  April  15.  1874.  She  was  a  great- 
granddaughter  of  Thomas  Barclay,  first  British  consul  for  the  Eastern  States  of  America. 


Mabel,  born  April  3d.  1875.  New  York  City. 

Bertram  DeLancey.  born  September  3rd.  1876.  at  New  York  City. 

Mabel  attended  Miss  Thiger's  school,  and  graduated  from  there  in  1893. 

Bertram  DeLancey  attended  Miss  DuVernet  DeCutler's  school,  graduating  from  there 
later  in  1894.  He  was  then  for  a  time  with  McKim.  Mead  &  White,  architects  in  New 
York  City,  and  is  now  with  Hopper  &  Koen. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia  and  Delta  Kappa.     In  1883  he  received  the  degree  of  M.  A.  from  Yale. 


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*JOHN  JAY  DU  BOIS. 

*JoHN  Jay  Du  Bois,  son  of  Henry  Augustus  Du  Bois  (Columbia,  '2"])  and  Catherine 
Helena  (Jay)  Du  Bois,  was  born  at  Newton  Falls,  Ohio,  June  6th,  1846.  He  died  at  Lake- 
wood.  N.  J.,  November  nth,  1898,  of  pneumonia. 

He  was  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  under  Dr.  James  M.  Whiton. 
and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63. 

His  father  was  a  physician  who  was  born  in  New  York  City.  August  9th,  1808,  and  died 
in  New  Haven.  Conn.,  January  13th,  1884.  He  received  the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Yale  Col- 
lege in  1864. 

His  mother,  Helena  Jay,  was  born  June  nth.  1815,  and  died  September  29th,  1889.  Her 
father,  Peter  Augustus  Jay,  was  the  eldest  son  of  John  Jay,  who  was  the  first  Chief  Justice  of 
the  United  States.  He  graduated  from  Columbia  College  in  1794,  receiving  the  degree  of 
LL.D.  from  Harvard  in  1831  and  Columbia  in  1835. 


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Graduated  from  Columbia  Law  School  in  May,  1869.  Made  several  short  trips  abroad. 
During  the  year  1876,  in  company  with  the  late  H.  Croswell  Tuttle,  he  opened  a  law  office  at 
Nos.  30  and  32  Park  Place,  under  the  firm  name  of  Tuttle  &  Du  Bois.  In  the  latter  part  of  the 
year  1877  he  was  stricken  with  a  severe  illness,  which  affected  his  head  and  made  the  con- 
tinuance of  his  professional  work  impossible,  so  that,  for  the  sake  of  regaining  his  health,  he 
went  to  Europe  in  December  of  that  year  and  spent  two  and  a  half  years  abroad.  For  the 
greater  part  of  the  time  he  was  located  in  Spain,  which  country  he  chose  on  account  of  its 
sunshine  and  its  general  cheering  and  stimulating  climate.  While  in  Spain  he  says  he  had 
three  serious  set-backs  in  the  way  of  health.  One  of  them  occurred  at  Seville,  which  was  a 
matter  for  the  surgeon.  Another  was  the  disease  of  scarlet  fever  at  that  place,  which,  he  writes 
came  near  putting  him  under  the  ground,  and  the  third,  the  effects  of  which  he  still  suffers 
from,  was  a  fall  one  dark  night  of  some  twenty  feet  or  more  into  a  gap  of  the  then  existing 
sea  wall  of  the  city  of  Barcelona.  This  occurred  in  August,  1879.  Speaking  of  his  fall,  he 
said  that  he  was  the  third  person  who  had  fallen  into  this  gap — the  first  person  who  fell 
was  killed  instantly,  and  the  second  died  within  twenty-four  hours  after  his  fall — and  that  he 
alone  survives. 

Chief  among  the  pleasurable  instances  of  his  trip  abroad  at  this  time  was  his  meeting 
and  traveling  with  General  and  Mrs.  Grant,  for  some  three  weeks,  from  Cadiz  to  Gib- 
raltar, Malaga,  Grenada,  back  to  Malaga,  thence  to  Almoria.  Alicante,  Carthagena,  Valen- 
cia and  Barcelona,  being  their  table  companion,  and  the  only  walking  companion  of  the  General 
most  of  that  time.  He  states  that  the  kindness  of  both  the  General  and  his  wife  to  him  he  shall 
never  forget,  especially  their  kindness  in  having  him  included  in  all  invitations  to  them- 
selves; that  he  came  to  know  the  General  quite  intimately  from  his  informal  talks  and  walks 
with  him  in  his  unofficial  life. 

He  writes :  "  Instead  of  a  reserved  '  silent '  man,  I  found  General  Grant  an  admirable 
conversationalist,  talking  by  the  hour  where  the  subject  demanded  it,  and  yet  always  so  sim- 
ple and  unaffectedly  true  to  his  discourse  and  bearing,  so  thoroughly  and  sincerely  American 
in  all  his  ideas  and  ways,  that  he  kindled  in  me  a  spirit  of  'hero  worship'  towards  himself 
that  I  had  supposed  it  impossible  for  me  to  entertain  towards  any  man." 

He  returned  to  this  country  in  the  latter  part  of  1880,  and  has  resided  since  that  time  till 
1889,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  attending  to  his  father's  estate  and  the  management  of  his  prop- 
erty, indulging  in  literary  pursuits  and  philosophical  research. 

The  Secretary  received  the  following  letter  from  him  just  before  the  last  class  reunion: 

"June  9th,   1897. 
"  Mv  Dear  Morse  : 

"It  is  to  my  great  regret  that  I  shall  be  unable  to  be  present  at  our  Trigintennial 
reunion. 

"  You  desire  me  to  write  you  the  maiden  name  of  my  mother  in  full.  It  was  Catharine 
Helena  Jay.    On  her  death  in  September,  1889,  our  home  in  New  Haven  was  broken  up,  and 

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since  then  I  have  been  homeless,  being  obliged,  by  reason  of  pulmonary  trouble,  to  travel  and 
live  for  a  large  part  of  the  time  in  health  resorts. 

"In  January,  1894,  while  trying  to  pass  a  Winter  in  New  York,  I  suffered  a  nearly 
fatal  attack  of  hydro-pneumo-thorax,  with  a  complete  collapse  of  one  lung.  My  illness  con- 
fined me  to  my  bed  for  four  months,  when  I  was  able  to  go  to  Lakewood,  New  Jersey,  with  my 
sister,  and,  after  some  weeks  of  life  in  a  wheel  chair,  to  Lake  Mohunk,  New  York. 

"  In  these  two  places  we  have  lived  ever  since — Mohunk  in  the  Summers  and  Lakewood 
in  the  Winters — with  great  benefit  in  health  to  both  of  us. 

"  In  response  to  your  request  to  send  a  photograph  of  myself  as  I  now  look,  I  forward 
you  two  'amateur'  likenesses,  taken  in  Lakewood  this  May,  and  trust  one  of  them  may  answer 
your  purpose,  as  I  have  not  had  any  other  photographs  of  myself  taken  for  many  years. 

"  Although  thrown  out  of  active  life,  as  I  have  been,  for  such  a  long  period  of  time,  I 
continue  to  take  an  appreciative  and  hearty  interest  in  the  useful  careers  of  our  old  college 
friends,  and  it  is  with  a  deep  sense  of  disappointment  that  I  have  to  forego  the  pleasure  of 
being  with  you  on  the  29th  and  giving  in  person  to  my  classmates  a  sincere  and  fraternal 
greeting. 

"  With  the  kindest  recollections  and  the  best  of  wishes  for  yourself  and  all  of  the  Class 
of  '67,  I  am.  Very  cordially  yours,  John  Jay  Du  Bois." 

To   Wm.    H.    Morse,    Class   Secretary,    '67. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones,  2nd  prize  English  Composition 
second  term  Sophomore,  and  third  prize  third  term  Sophomore.  Yale  Lit.  Editor.  First 
Colloquy. 


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ALBERT     ELIJAH     DUNNING. 


Albert  Elijah  Dunning,  son  of  Elijah  Starr  and  Abigail  (Beach)  Dunning,  was  born 
at  Brookfield,  Conn.,  January  5th,  1844.     Was  fitted  for  College  under  a  private  tutor. 

His  father,  Elijah  Starr  Dunning,  was  not  a  College  man,  but  a  farmer.  His  ancestry 
on  the  paternal  side  dates  back  to  one  of  two  brothers,  who  came  to  Connecticut  in  1836,  and 
lived  in  Fairfield  County.  His  ancestry  on  the  maternal  side  goes  back  to  Captain  David 
Beach,  an  officer  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  and  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 
He  has  inherited  membership  in  that  Society  from  him. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  entered  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1870  and  became  the  first  pastor  of  the  Highland  Congregational  Church,  Bos- 
ton, Mass.  He  remained  there  till  1881,  when  he  was  elected  Secretary  of  the  Congregational 
Sunday  School  and  Publishing  Society,  with  headquarters  in  Boston,  Mass.  From  that  posi- 
tion he  came,  in  1889,  to  be  the  editor  of  the  '"Congregationalist."     He  has  been  a  member 

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of  the  business  firm  of  W.  L.  Greene  &  Co.,  publishers  of  the  "Congregationalist,"  since  May 
2,  1889.  In  1889  he  resigned  the  position  as  Secretary  of  the  Congregational 
Sunday  School  and  Publishing  Society,  and  became  the  editor  of  the  "Congrega- 
tionalist," which  position  he  now  holds.  He  has  represented  the  Congregational 
churches  of  the  United  States  on  the  International  Sunday  School  Lesson  Committee  since 
1884.  He  was  re-elected  last  year  for  a  term  of  six  years.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  World's 
Congregational  Council  in  London  in  1891.  In  1895  he  conducted  a  party  on  an  extensive 
journey  through  Egypt.  Palestine  and  along  the  shores  of  Asia  Minor,  visiting  Athens,  Con- 
stantinople and  other  cities  of  Eastern  Europe.  Last  year  he  conducted  a  pilgrimage  to 
shrines  in  England  and  Holland  of  interest  to  Congregationalists,  and  received  many  atten- 
tions from  public  officials,  clergy,  etc.,  in  London  and  other  cities.  He  has  traveled  abroad 
four  times  within  the  last  ten  years,  and  has  published  two  or  three  books,  including  one 
volume  of  Bible  studies  republished  in  England  and  translated  into  the  Tamil  language;  also 
a  History  of  Congregationalists  in  America. 

He  is  the  first  member  of  the  Class  of  '67  to  have  a  son  graduate  from  Yale.  He  is  now 
an  instructor  in  Semitic  languages  in  the  graduate  department  of  the  University. 

His  mother's  maiden  name  was  Abigail  Beach,  and  through  her,  as  she  had  no  brothers, 
he  inherited  membership  in  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  the  Connecticut  Chapter  of  which 
was  revived  a  few  years  ago ;  was  married  at  Kingston,  N.  Y.,  to  Harriet  W.  Weed,  Decem- 
ber 4,  187.0.^^  .^ 

^  ^  ;?  -  CHILDREN. 

Hslffy ^Westbrook,  born  December  7th,  1871.  Boston,  Mass. 

Morton  Dexter,  born  December  14th,  1872,  Boston,  Mass. 

Albert  Beach,  born  July  31st,  1875,  Boston,  Mass. 

Emily  Beekman,  born  June  21st.  1881,  Boston,  Mass. 

Harry  Westbrook  graduated  at  Yale  in  the  Class  of  '94,  and  is  a  member  of  its  Faculty, 
being  Instructor  in  the  Semitic  languages. 

Morton  Dexter  graduated  from  Amherst  College  in  the  Class  of  '96.  He  is  a  theological 
student  in  the  Senior  year  in  Hartford  Seminary. 

Albert  Beach  is  a  student  in  Harvard  University,  in  his  second  year. 

Emily  Beekman  is  a  student  in  the  Boston  Latin  School. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones;  ist  prize  English  Composition  second  term 
Sophomore,  2nd  prize  Engli  h  Composition  third  term  Sophomore,  Townsend,  Dissertation. 
Yale  Lit. 


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HENRY     TURNER     EDDY. 


Henry  Turner  Eddy,  eldest  son  of  Rev.  Henry  (Yale,  1832,  and  Andover  Seminary)  and 
Sarah  Hay  ward  (Torrey)  Eddy,  was  born  at  Stoughton,  Mass.,  June  9th,  1844. 

He  fitted  for  College  at  the  North  Bridgewater  Academy,  Brockton,  Mass.,  and  entered 
the  Class  of  1867  in  1863. 

At  the  time  of  Eddy's  birth,  his  father.  Rev.  Henry  Eddy,  was  pastor  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  at  Stoughton,  Mass.,  and  his  mother,  Sarah  H.  (Torrey)  Eddy,  was  a  graduate 
of  Mt.  Holyoke  Seminary,  and  had  been  teacher  of  Mathematics  under  Mary  Lyon. 

Henry  Eddy  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  the  Class  of  1832.  He  was  the  second  son 
of  Thomas  and  Abi  (Lewis)  Eddy,  and  was  born  in  that  part  of  New  Britain,  Conn.,  now 
called  Berlin,  October  ist,  1805,  and  died  in  North  Bridgewater  (now  Brockton),  Mass., 
September  23rd,  1872,  aged  67. 

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He  studied  Theology  for  one  or  two  years,  after  graduating,  at  Andover  Theological 
Seminary,  and  then  continued  his  studies  in  the  Yale  Theological  Seminary.  He  was  or- 
dained. February  i6th,  1836.  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  West  Granville.  Mass., 
from  which  charge  he  was  dismissed.  September  25th,  :83Q.  He  was  installed  over  the  Con- 
gregational Church  at  Stoughton.  ?klass..  November  4th.  1840.  and  dismissed  in  1844.  He 
then  supplied  for  two  years  the  pulpit  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Turner.  Me.,  and  was 
next  settled  for  two  years  over  a  church  in  Kennebunkport  in  the  same  State.  At  this  time, 
finding  that  his  voice  was  failing,  he  thought  it  best  to  prepare  himself  for  another  profession, 
and  while  supplying  the  church  at  North  Guilford.  Conn,  (from  January.  1849.  to  March. 
1851),  studied  medicine  in  New  Haven,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  Yale  College 
in  1851.  From  that  date  until  his  death  he  resided  in  North  Bridgewater.  Mass..  at  first 
practicing  medicine,  but  after  a  few  years  engaged  in  farming  and  in  business  growing  out 
of  inventions  of  his  own  and  the  patent  rights  connected  with  them. 

He  married,  first.  Cornelia,  daughter  of  Rev.  Luke  Wood,  of  Clinton.  Conn..  January  25th, 
1836.  She  died  February  6th.  1842.  leaving  one  daughter,  Cornelia,  who  died  March  24th. 
1893.  aged  53  years  8  months.  He  married  for  his  second  wife  ^liss  Sarah  H.  Torrey.  of 
North  Bridgewater.  Mass..  August  23rd.  1843.  His  two  sons,  Henry  T.  and  Willard.  were 
graduates  of  Yale  College  in  1867  and  1870. 

He  attended  Yale  College  and  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  New  Haven.  Conn..  1863-68; 
Cornell  University.  Ithaca.  N.  Y..  1869-73 :  University  of  Berlin  and  Physikalische  Institute, 
Fall  Seme  ter.  1879:  Sorbonne  and  College  de  France.  Paris.  Spring  Semester.  1880. 

The  Academic  Honors  won  by  him  are  as  follows : 

Three  first  prizes  in  Mathematics  and  the  Senior  Math.  Medal  at  Yale;  A.  B.,  Yale,  1867; 
Ph.  B.,  Yale  S.  S.  S..  1868:  A.  M..  Yale,  1870;  C.  E.,  Cornell  University,  1870;  Ph.  D..  Cor- 
nell University.   1872:  LL.D.,  Center  College.   1892. 

He  was  instructor  in  Field  Work,  Yale  S.  S.  S..  third  term,  1867-68;  in  Latin  and  Mathe- 
matics. University  of  Tennessee.  1868-69;  Assistant  Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Civil  En- 
gineering. Cornell  University.  1869-73;  Adjunct  Professor  of  Mathematics,  Princeton  College. 
N.  J..  1873-74;  Professor  of  Astronomy.  Mathematics  and  Civil  Engineering.  University  of 
Cincinnati.  1874-90;  Professor  of  Engineering  and  Mechanics,  University  of  Minnesota,  1894. 

Subjects  of  instruction  were:  Railroad  Surveying.  Yale  .S.  S.  S. ;  Latin.  Algebra  and 
Geometry.  Universitj'  of  Tennessee ;  Trigonometry,  Analytical  Geometry,  Calculus.  Astron- 
omy and  Railroad  Survejing.  Cornell  University;  Algebra.  Geometry.  Descriptive  Geometry 
and  Calculus.  Princeton  College;  Theoretical  and  Applied  Mechanics.  Water  Supply  Engi- 
neering, Theory  of  Structures,  Calculus.  Differential  Equations  and  Mathematical  Physics, 
Cincinnati  University ;  Mechanics  and  German.  Rose  Polytechnic  Institute ;  Theoretical  and 
Applied  Mechanics,  Thermodynamics.  Theory  of  Steam  and  Gas  Engines,  of  Ice  Machines 
and  of  Turbines,  of  Dynamos  and  Motors,  and  of  Alternating  Currents.  University  of 
Minnesota. 

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Author  of  "Analytical  Geometry,"  Philadelphia,  1874;  "Researches  in  Graphical 
Statistics,"  New  York,  1878;  "Thermodynamics,"  New  York,  1879;  "Neue  Constructionen 
aus  der  Grapeschen  Statik,"  Lepzig,  1880;  "Maximum  Stresses  under  Concentrated  Loads." 
New  York,  1890,  and  many  papers  in  scientific  and  technical  journals. 

Member  of  Am.  Phil.  Soc,  Philadelphia ;  .Am.  .Assoc.  Ad.  Sci. ;  Am.  Math.  Soc. ;  Soc. 
Prom.  Eng.  Ed.;  Phi  Beta  Kappa  (Yale  Chapter)  ;  Sigma  Xi  (Cornell  Chapter;. 

He  was  Dean  of  Academic  Faculty,  University  of  Cincinnati,  1874-77  and  1884-89;  Act- 
ing President.  University  of  Cincinnati.  1890 ;  President-Elect,  University  of  Cincinnati,  1890 ; 
President  of  Rose  Polytechnic  Institute,  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  1891-94;  Vice-President  of  Am. 
Assoc.  Advance  Sci.  for  Mathematics  and  Physics,  1884;  President,  Soc.  for  Promoting  Eng. 
Education,   1896. 

Was  married  to  Isabella  E.  Taylor,  New  Haven.  Conn.,  January  4th,  1870. 

CHILDUEN. 

Ruth  Elizabeth,  born  September  20th,  1871,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 

Horace  Taylor,  born  April  25th,  1874,  Princeton,  N.  J. 

Esther  Mabel,  born  July  20th,  1876,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Beatrice  Emogene,  born  December  loth,  1886,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Helen  Frances,  born  July  23,  1888,  Guilford,  Conn.  (Sachem's  Head). 

Ruth  Elizabeth  studied  two  years  at  the  University  of  Cincinnati,  1889-91,  and  two  years 
at  Vassar,  1891-93,  where  she  graduated,  receiving  the  degree  of  \.  B.  She  is  now  studying 
Bacteriology,  Giemistry,  etc.,  for  a  Ph.  D.  at  the  University  of  Minnesota. 

Horace  Taylor  fit.cd  for  College  at  the  Franklin  School,  Cincinnati,  and  entered  Rose 
Polytechnic  Institute  at  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  in  1891  ;  after  completing  three  years  there,  he 
was  admitted  to  the  Senior  Class  of  the  University  of  Minnesota  in  1894,  graduating  in  1895 
with  the  degree  of  B.  E.  C.  In  1896  he  received  the  degree  of  Electrical  Engineer.  He  has 
recently  entered  the  testing  department  of  the  Genl.  Electrical  Co.  at  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

Esther  Mabel  prepared  for  College  at  the  Coates  College,  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  entering  in 
1894,  and  is  now  in  her  Senior  year. 

Beatrice  Emogene  and  Helen  Frances  are  studying  at  home. 

Every  member  of  the  family  has  been  in  excellent  health  during  the  whole  of  their  lives. 

Willard  Eddy,  the  youngest  brother  of  Henry  Turner  Eddy,  who  was  born  in  1845  at 
Turner.  Me.,  graduating  at  Yale  in  1870  (A.  B.),  LL.B.  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  is  practicing 
law  at  Hartford,  Conn. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Brothers.  Gamma  Nu.     Oration. 


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CHARLES     SAMUEL    ELLIOT. 


Charles  Samuel  Elliot,  son  of  Samuel  Hays  (Union  College)  and  Marcia  Lauretta 
(Harvey)  Elliot,  was  born  at  VVoodbridge,  Conn.,  December  31st,  1846. 

He  fitted  for  Yale  under  E.  C.  Hall  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  entered  the  class  of  '67  in 
July,  1863. 

His  father  was  of  English  stock,  and  a  Clergyman  by  profession.  On  his  mother's  side, 
the  Harveys  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Jamestown,  N.  Y. 

After  graduating  he  was  connected  with  the  U.  S.  Mail  service  for  a  few  months.  In 
March,  1868,  he  became  one  of  the  editors  of  the  New  Haven  "Palladium."  In  1871  he  went 
to  Boston,  Mass.,  and  was  Assistant  Editor  of  the  "Post"  until  December,  1872;  the  following 
Spring,  in  the  month  of  April,  he  accepted  the  Managing  Editorship  of  the  New  Haven 
"Journal  and  Courier,"  which  position  he  held  until  1878.  In  January,  1875,  he  was  engaged 
as  chorister  and  organist  at  Trinity  Church,  New  Haven.     Went  to  Europe,  September,  1878, 

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and  was  there  two  years.  Resided  principally  in  Paris,  studying  music.  Was  organist  of  the 
American  Episcopal  Church  of  the  Holy  Trinity  while  there.  Returned  to  this  country  in 
1880,  and  took  up  his  residence  at  New  London,  Conn.,  teaching  music  and  being  organist  of 
St.  James'  Church  at  that  place. 

Left  New  London,  January-  ist.  1883,  and  the  same  year  took  up  his  residence  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  where  he  was  engaged  in  literary,  musical  and  editorial  work.  Until  January, 
1888,  was  the  Washington  correspondent  of  the  New  York  "Commercial  Advertiser,"'  the 
Philadelphia  "Evening  Telegraph,"  and  Boston  "Congregationalist." 

During  the  years  1885-86  he  wrote  and  delivered  in  Washington,  D.  C,  Boston,  New 
Haven,  New  London  and  other  places,  a  series  of  lectures  on  musical  subjects,  which  were 
well  received. 

In  1888  he  became  Assistant  Editor  of  the  New  York  "Commercial  Advertiser,"  residing 
m  New  York  City  when  that  paper  passed  into  other  hands.  In  January,  1891,  he  became 
editor  of  the  "American  Exporter."  In  December,  1892,  he  again  engaged  in  newspaper  work 
in  Washington,  D.  C,  on  the  "News"  and  the  "Post"  of  that  city  until  January  1st,  1895.  when 
he  removed  to  New  York,  and  established  the  -Musical  Publishing  House  of  Charles  S.  Elliot 
&  Co.,  156  Fifth  Avenue.  New  York  City,  which  also  acts  as  American  Agent  for  the  Lon- 
don (England)  Music  Publishing  House  of  Dr.  Charles  Vincent. 

He  has  crossed  the  Atlantic  several  times  on  business  connected  with  this  enterprise,  and 
in  February,  1897,  accepted  a  proposal  from  Dr.  Vincent  to  go  to  London  and  assume  the 
management  of  his  business  establishment  there  during  his  ab.sence  in  Australia.  In  1896 
he  was  elected  one  of  the  founders  of  the  American  Guild  of  Organists,  and  while  in  London 
was  cho;en  Secretary'  of  the  "  Light  Reading  Club." 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,  HONORS,  RANK. 

Brothers,  Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Beta  Chi,  D.  K.  E.  Spade  and  Grave.  Honorary  Wolfs 
Head  1892.     First  Dispute. 


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JAMES    GREELEY    FLANDERS. 


James  Greeley  Flanders,  son  of  Walter  Powers  Flanders  (Dartmouth,  1831)  and  Susan 
Everett  (Greeley)  Flanders,  was  born  at  New  London,  N.  H..  Deceml^er  13th,  1844.  He 
fitted  for  College  at  Phillips  Exeter  Academy  under  Gideon  L.  Soule,  and  entered  the  Class  of 
'67  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

His  father  studied  and  practiced  law  at  New  London,  N.  H.,  till  1848,  when  he  removed 
to  Wisconsin,  locating  in  Milwaukee,  and  there  died  in   1883.     He  did  not  follow  his  pro 
fession,  the  Law,  but  engaged  largely  in  Real  Estate. 

James  Flanders,  his  father,  and  the  grandfather  of  our  classmate,  was  a  distinguished 
lawyer  and  legislator  in  New  London,  N.  H.  He  was  born  in  1740,  and  died  in  1820.  He 
was  a  prominent  figure  in  the  military  and  civil  life  of  the  Colonies  during  the  Revolution; 
both  he  and  his  son  were  members  of  the  Legislature  of  New  Hampshire  for  several  terms. 

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On  his  mother's  side  he  is  descended  from  the  Greeleys  of  Newburyport,  Mass.  Jona- 
than Greeley,  her  father,  was  a  prominent  and  distinguished  man  during  the  period  in  which 
he  lived,  and  his  daughter,  Susan  Everett,  died  in  1888  in  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

After  graduating  he  studied  Law  one  year  at  his  home  in  Milwaukee,  then  entered  the 
Senior  Class  in  Columbia  Law  School,  where  he  graduated,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in 
May,  1869.  Became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Davis  &  Flanders  July  i,  1868,  which  firm  be- 
came Butler,  Davis  &  Flanders,  April  i,  1875.  Formed  the  firm  of  Flanders  &  Gray,  Janu- 
ary 1st,  1877.  Was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Board  of  School  Commissioners  of  Milwaukee 
for  a  term  of  two  years,  from  May  ist,  1875-77.  Was  elected  a  member  of  the  Assembly 
of  the  State  of  Wisconsin,  November  7,  1876,  for  the  year  1877,  as  a  Democrat,  and  served 
during  the  last  session,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Judiciary  Committee. 

In  April,  1878,  the  law  firm  of  Flanders  &  Bottom  was  formed. 

He  was  elected  by  the  State  Democratic  Convention  a  Delegate-at-Large  to  the  Demo- 
cratic Convention  in  Chicago  in  July,  1896. 

He  attended  that  Convention.  The  delegation  having  been  instructed  by  the  State  Con- 
vention to  oppose  any  platform  with  a  silver  plank,  nearlj-  all  the  delegates  obeyed  instruc- 
tions. He  was  not  able  to  accept  or  vote  for  the  Chicago  platform  or  its  nominees,  and  was 
later  sent  as  a  Delegate-at-Large  to  the  Indianapolis  Convention  in  September,  1896. 

His  law  firms  have  been  as  follows :  Davis  &  Flanders,  1869-74 ;  Butler,  Davis  &  Flanders, 
1874-76;  Flanders  &  Bottom,  1877-88;  Winkler.  Flanders,  Smith.  Bottom  &  Vilas,  1888  to 
date. 

He  married  'Slary  C.  H.  Fairchild,  June  18,  1873,  at  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

CHILDREN. 

Robert  Haney,  born  May  15th,  1874,  Milwaukee,  Wis. ;  died  August  8th,  1874,  Milwaukee, 
Wis. 

Charlotte  Bartlett,  born  June  3rd,  1876,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Kent,  born  December  3rd,  1878,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Grace,  born  November  27th,  1880,  Milwaukee,  Wis. ;  died  June  8th,  1881,  Milwaukee, 
Wis. 

Roger  Yale,  born  November  12th,  1882,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Charlotte  B.  attended  for  some  years  the  Misses  Masters'  School  at  Dobbs  Ferry,  N.  Y. 

Kent  is  studying  at  Phillips  Exeter  Academy. 

Roger  Yale  is  a  student  in  the  Milwaukee  High  School. 

The  success  of  our  30th  Anniversary  was  largely  due  to  the  efforts  of  our  Classmate, 
who  acted  so  ably  as  Chairm.an  at  the  dinner. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  Gamma  Nu  and  Alpha  Delta  Phi.  Took  the  3rd  prize  in  Brothers  Freshman 
Prize  Debate  and  the  ist  prize  Junior  year.  Took  3rd  prize  in  English  Composition  second 
term  Sophomore  and  ist  prize  in  Declamation  third  term  Sophomore.     Dissertation. 

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*JAMES    MATTHEW    GAMBLE. 

*James  Matthew  Gamble,  son  of  James  Gamble  and  Elizabeth  (Brenneman)  Gamble, 
was  born  at  Jersey  Shore,  Pa.,  September  gth,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  at  the  West  Branch  High  School  under  A.  Donleavy  Long,  and 
entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '6.3. 

After  a  long  and  painful  illness  James  M.  Gamble,  Esq.,  died  at  his  cottage  at  Eagle's 
Mere,  July  i6th.  1.S88.  He  had  suffered  much  for  a  number  of  years,  and  spent  several 
Winters  in  the  South  for  the  benefit  of  his  health.  He  was  the  second  son  of  the  late  Hon. 
James  Gamble,  who  was  Presiding  Judge  of  this  judicial  di.strict  (Williamsport,  Pa.)  for  ten 
years,  and  was  born  at  Jersey  Shore  September  9th,  1845.  He  received  a  good  education,  and 
graduated  at  Yale  in  1867.  Soon  after  leaving  College  he  began  the  study  of  Law  with 
his  father,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Lycoming  County  Bar  in  May,  1870.  He  entered  into 
partnership  with  Hon.  R.  P.  Allen,  and  the  law  firm  of  Allen  &  Gamble  was  formed,  which 


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continued  until  about  1880.  At  that  time,  owing  to  poor  health,  he  retired  from  the  firm,  and 
afterwards  lived  a  retired  life. 

When  his  health  would  permit  it,  Mr.  Gamble  was  an  active  member  of  society,  and 
took  a  deep  interest  in  whatever  was  calculated  to  improve  and  benefit  the  city  of  his  adop- 
tion. On  the  1st  of  January,  1875,  he  was  chosen  Superintendent  of  Finley  Sunday  School, 
en  Anthony  Street,  which,  under  his  management,  grew  to  be  one  of  the  largest  and  most 
prosperous  Sunday  Schools  in  the  city.  It  is  connected  with  the  First  Pre-->byterian  Church. 
After  filling  the  office  for  about  ten  years  he  retired.  He  was  also  an  elder  in  the  First 
Presbj'lerian  Church  for  five  years,  and  always  took  a  deep  interest  in  its  welfare,  and  par- 
ticularly in  the  erection  of  the  present  elegant  building. 

A  few  years  ago  he  served  for  one  term  as  a  member  of  the  Select  Council  from  the 
Second  Ward.  He  was  also  President  of  the  Williamsport  Water  Company,  a  Director  of 
the  Williamsport  Passenger  Railway  Company,  a  Director  of  the  Bald  Eagle  Valley  Railroad 
Company,  a  Director  of  the  Lycoming  National  Bank,  one  of  the  executors  of  his  father's 
estate,  executor  of  the  will  of  John  A.  Gamble,  and  executor  of  the  will  of  Matthew  Gamble. 

Among  his  last  acts  was  his  financial  assistance  and  supervision  of  the  erection  of  a 
chapel  at  Eagle's  Mere,  which  was  dedicated  on  Sunday,  July  15th,  1887,  by  Rev.  Dr.  Web- 
ster and  Rev.  Dr.  Nisbitt.  It  was  one  of  his  most  earnest  desires  to  be  present  at  this 
dedication,  and  during  Sunday  afternoon  he  listened  to  an  account  of  the  dedication  services 
with  the  liveliest  interest  and  pleasure.  After  the  dedication  he  partook  of  communion  at  his 
cottage. 

His  death  was  calm  and  peaceful,  and  up  to  within  two  hours  of  that  time  he  retained 
consciousness.  The  body  was  brought  down  to  Hall's  on  a  special  train,  and  then  put 
aboard  the  Philadelphia  and  Reading  regular  train.  The  funeral  took  place  Thursday 
morning.  July  19th,  1887,  from  his  residence  on  Mulberry  Street. 

Many  of  his  relatives  and  friends  were  present  at  his  death. 

He  married  Mary  L.  White,  of  Williamsport,  Pa.,  on  October  21st,  1875. 

CHILDREN. 

Martha  White,  born  November  i6th,  1876,  Williamsport.  Pa. 

Elizabeth,  born  September  4th,  1878.  Williamsport.  Pa. ;  died  February  27th,  1880.  Wil- 
liamsport, Pa. 

Isabel  White,  born  July  3rd,  1880,  Williamsport,  Pa. 

James,  born  December  19th,  1882,  Williamsport,  Pa. 

John  Armstrong,  born  November  24th,  1886,  Williamsport,  Pa, ;  died  March  i6th,  1888. 
Williamsport.  Pa. 

Martha  and  Isabel  have  been  educated  at  St.  Timothy's  School,  Catonsville.  Md.  The 
former  graduated  in  1896.  the  other  graduating  in  '98. 

James  is  attending  the  Cheshire  Academy  at  Cheshire,  Conn.,  preparing  for  Yale. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    R.\NK. 

Linonia.  Delta  Kappa.  Alpha  Delta  Phi  and  Spade  and  Grave.  Second  Colloquy. 

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CHARLES  HOLMES  GOODMAN. 


Chari.es  Holmes  Goodman,  son  of  Edmund  Otis  and  Clarissa  (Holmes)  Goodman,  was 
born  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  August  8th,  1844. 

He  fitted  for  College  under  W.  C.  Wilcox,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  entered  the  Class  of 
'67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

His  father.  Edmund  Otis  Goodman,  was  a  merchant ;  his  people  came  from  Massachu- 
setts, and  he  can  trace  his  descent  in  a  straight  line  from  the  Pilgrim  Fathers.  His  grand- 
father was  the  leading  physician  of  South  Hadley  Falls.  Mass.,  for  many  years  until  his 
death.  His  mother's  ancestors  came  from  Litchfield.  Conn.,  and  settled  in  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
where  they  were  merchants  and  manufacturers. 

Has  been  engaged,  since  graduation,  in  the  study  and  practice  of  medicine.  Took  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  at  the  Hahnemann  Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  March  4,  1869.  He 
then  removed  to  his  home  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  has  been  practicing  his  profession  with 

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good  success.  Is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Homeopathy;  Professor  of  Theory 
and  Practice  in  the  Homeopathic  Medical  College  of  Missouri,  1882-84;  Editor  of  the  "Ho- 
meopathic News,"  and  a  contributor  to  the  "Homeopathic  Medical  Press." 

He  married  Mary  Scott,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  on  February  i8th,   1873.     She  died  August 
t2th,  1885. 

CHILDREN. 

Scott,  born  January  24th,  1874,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  died  January  19th,  1883,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Charles  E.,  born  January  19th.  1876,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Charles  E.  graduated  from  Yale  in  the  Class  of  '98. 

On  February  28th,  1899,  our  Classmate  was  married  to  Mrs.  Ellen  F.  Duke,  of  St.  Louis, 
Mo. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES^    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa,  Phi  Theta  Psi,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key.  Spoonman.  First 
Colloquy. 


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X 


WILLIAM    HENRY   GOODYEAR. 

William  Henry  Goodyear,  son  of  Charles  and  Clarissa  (Beecher)  Goodyear,  was  born 
at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  April  2ist,  1846. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  Genl.  Russell's  School  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  en- 
tered the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

His  father  was  the  discoverer  of  the  vulcanization  of  India  Rubber,  and  creator  of  the 
India  Rubber  industry. 

Stephen  Goodyear,  an  ancestor,  was  the  first  Governor  of  the  Connecticut  colony. 

The  following  is  from  his  own  pen.     In  1897  he  writes: 

As  regards  residence,  I  went  to  Germany  after  graduation,  and  studied  History  and  the 
History  of  Art  for  two  years  at  the  Universities  of  Berlin  and  Heidelberg.  A  third  year 
abroad  was  spent  partly  in  Germany,  partly  in  the  East  and  in  Italy.       I  was  able  while  in 


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Syria  to  visit  the  East  Jordan  Country  and  the  Hauran — a  territory  remarkable  for  its 
Roman  ruins  and  rarely  seen  by  travelers.  Since  returning  to  America  in  1870  I  have  always 
lived  in  New  York. 

As  regards  occupation,  I  began  teaching  History  and  the  History  of  Art  in  the  New 
York  Young  Ladies'  Schools  in  1871.  After  1874  I  gave  up  teaching  School  Classes  for  classes 
in  lecturing  on  the  same  subjects.  I  was  employed  as  Lecturer  in  various  Schools  and  Semi- 
naries, and  lectured  also  to  private  classes  of  adults  and  occasionally  in  public.  I  have  lec- 
tured as  far  West  as  Chicago,  as  far  East  as  Mt.  Holyoke  Seminary,  and  as  far  South  as  Bal- 
timore. Outside  of  New  York  1  was  constantly  employed  in  Philadelphia.  On  two  occa- 
sions I  have  given  courses  in  the  Peabody  Institute  in  Baltimore,  a  number  of  courses  in  the 
.Academy  of  Fine  Arts  in  Philadelphia,  and  I  held  official  appointments  from  the  Philadelphia 
School  of  Design  and  from  the  Cocper  Institute  in  New  York. 

In  1882  I  was  made  a  Curator  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  and  the  duties  of  this 
office  have  since  then  taken  up  most  of  my  time,  although  I  still  give  lectures  occasionally. 

As  regards  publications.  I  wrote  some  few  essays  and  reviews  for  the  "Independent"  in 
1873  and  1874.  In  1874  I  published  in  "Scribner's  Magazine"  of  August  some  original  dis- 
coveries made  in  Pisa  and  relating  to  optical  refinements  in  Medieval  Architecture,  under  the 
title  "A  Lost  Art."  In  1876  I  publi.«hed  in  "Lippincott's  Magazine"  an  article  on  the  second 
part  of  Goethe's  "Faust."  In  the  same  year  I  published  in  the  New  York  "World"  a  scheme 
of  voting  reform,  under  the  title  of  the  "Quota  Vote," 

In  1885  I  published  an  "Ancient  and  Modem  History,"  an  illustrated  school  text-book 
(William  H.  Sadler  &  Co.,  N.  Y.),  which  sells  about  3.000  copies  a  year  and  promises  large 
editions.  I  have  now  in  press  for  A.  S.  Barnes  &  Co.  an  illustrated  compendium  of  the 
History  of  Art.  In  1885  I  published  an  essay  on  "Ancient  Glass"  in  the  "American  Journal 
of  Archaeology,"  and  its  forthcoming  issue  will  contain  my  discovery  of  the  dev^opment  of 
the  Greek  Decorative  Art  from  the  Egyptian  lotus  motive,  under  the  title  "Egj'ptian  Origin 
of  the  Ionic  Capital  and  of  the  Anthemion." 

In  a  letter  received  by  the  Secretary,  May  27th,  1897,  he  writes: 

It  gives  me  pleasure  to  an  wer  your  circular  and  to  mention  the  following  particulars : 

In  the  last  ten  years  I  have  written  five  books,  which  have  been  published,  as  follows: 
"History  of  A-rt."  now  in  two  volumes,  A.  S.  Barnes,  Publi.sher;  "Grammar  of  the  Lotus," 
Samson  Low,  Publisher;  "Roman  and  Medieval  Art"  and  "Renaissance  and  Modern  Art," 
Chautauqua  Literary  and  Scientific  Circle.  Publisher;  "Ancient  and  Modern  History,"  W. 
H.  Sadler,  Publisher. 

In  the  "Grammar  of  the  Lotus"  I  have  announced  a  new  theory  of  the  origin  of  classic 
ornament  which  has  met  opposition  as  well  as  acceptance,  but  none  of  the  main  results  have 
been  antagonized  by  any  expert  in  Greek  ornament. 

In  1895  the  Brooklyn  Institute  of  Arts  and  Sciences  raised  $1,500  to  pay  the  expenses 
of  an  expert  in  surveying  and  photography,  to  spend  five  months  in  a  survey  of  the  Italian 
Cathedrals  under  my  directions. 

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I  paid  my  own  expenses  on  this  trip.  Its  results  are  now  being  published  by  the 
"Architectural  Record  Quarterly  Magazine."  They  are  approved  by  Prof.  Charles  Eliot 
Norton,  of  Harvard,  as  making  a  new  departure  in  the  study  of  medieval  architecture. 

I  have  discovered  the  use  in  Italian  Cathedrals  of  curves  and  other  optical  refinements 
hitherto  presumed  to  have  been  known  only  to  the  Greeks. 

In  1891  I  discovered  curves  in  the  Roman  Temple,  known  as  the  Maison  Caree,  at 
Nismes,  in  Southern  France.  The  facts  as  published  by  the  Smithsonian  Institution  have  been 
generally  accepted.     This  is  the  first  discovery  of  curves  in  a  Roman  Temple. 

In  1892  I  was  invited  to  read  a  Paper  before  the  Egyptian  Section  of  the  Oriental  Con- 
gress at  London,  and  went  there  for  that  purpose. 

In  1896  I  was  invited  by  the  Liverpool  Local  Committee  to  read  a  Paper  at  a  Conver- 
sazione of  the  Briti.sh  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  meeting  at  Liverpool,  and 
went  over  for  that  purpose. 

In  1891  I  went  to  Egpyt  and  discovered  there  curves  in  certain  P2gyptian  temples.  The 
results  have  been  accepted  and  published  by  the  Smithsonian  Institution. 

Within  a  few  weeks  I  have  received  an  appointment  from  the  University  of  Chicago  as 
Professorial  Lecturer  on  the  University  Extension  Stafif,  said  appointment  being  for  the  three 
last  months  of  this  year. 

Otherwise  I  have  spent  my  time  during  the  last  few  years  in  lecture  work  on  the  History 
of  Art  and  Civilization,  giving  courses  for  the  American  University  B^xtension  Society  of 
Philadelphia;  for  the  University  Extension  Department  of  the  New  York  Board  of  Regents; 
for  the  Teachers'  College.  N.  Y. ;  for  the  New  York  Board  of  Education ;  for  the  Brooklyn 
Institute,  and  various  other  organizations. 

Allow  me  to  compliment  and  appreciate  the  patriotic  and  disinterested  spirit  which  has 
prompted  you  so  long  to  guard  the  interests  and  history  of  our  class. 

Faithfully  yours, 

Wm.  H.  Goodyear. 

In  January,  1899,  he  was  appointed  Curator  of  the  Collections  in  Fine  Arts  at  the 
Brooklyn  Institute  Museum  Building. 

His  first  wife  was  Miss  Sarah  Sanford,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  whom  he  married  June  30th, 
1871.  She  died  January  loth,  1878,  without  issue.  His  second  wife  was  Miss  Nellie  F.  M. 
Johnes,  of  New  York,  whom  he  married  on  February  ist,  1879,  by  whom  he  has  had  five 
children. 

CHILDREN. 

Mary  Lord,  born  October  31st,  1879,  New  York  City. 
Catherine  F.,  born  March  i8th,  1881,  New  York  City. 
Charles  Wm.  H..  born  June  3rd,  1883.  New  York  City. 
Jane  Eleanor,  born  November  29th.  1884,  New  York  City. 
Rosalie  Heaton,  born  July  12th,  1886,  New  York  City. 

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Mary  Lord  was  married  to  W.   ^lilton  Graham  in  May,   1897. 

He  was  married  Januarj'  ist,  1897,  to  Mrs.  ^lary  Katharine  Covert.     There  is  no  issue  of 
this   marriage. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  R.ANK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa.  Phi  Theta  Psi.  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key;  took  3rd  prize 
Sophomore  Prize  Debate  in  Linonia,  First  Colloquy. 


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♦THOMAS     GREENWOOD. 


*Thomas  Greenwood,  son  of  Walter  and  Eunice  (Thurston)  Greenwood,  was  born  at 
Providence,  R.  I.,  November  27th,  1842. 

He  fitted  for  College  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.,  and  entered  the  Class 
at  the  commencement  of  the  Junior  year.    Was  in  "66  Freshman  and  Sophomore  years. 

His  father  was  a  merchant  in  the  wooden-ware  business  in  Providence,  R.  I.  His 
mother,  who  was  living  in  '95,  was  then  in  her  88th  year. 

After  graduation  he  taught  a  year,  1867-68,  in  Gambier,  Ohio ;  one  year  in  Westchester, 
N.  Y.,  1868-69;  four  years,  1869-73,  in  Jersey  City,  N.  J.  Was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar 
in  1872.  Practiced  Law  from  1873  to  1878,  when  he  entered  the  U.  S.  District  Attorney's 
Office  as  Assistant  Attorney,  which  position  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

On  February  ist,  1894,  he  complained  of  pain  in  his  stomach,  which  troubled  him  more 
or  less  till  the  middle  of  May,  when  he  ceased  attending  the  office.     The  last  day  he  went 

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out  was  on  the  28th  of  May ;  from  that  day  till  his  death  he  was  confined  to  his  bed  from 
cancer  of  the  stomach. 

He  was  married  February  ist,  1893,  to  ^lary  A.  McDermott,  of  New  York  City,  by  the 
Rt.  Rev.  Henry  H.  Weyman,  in  the  Church  of  St.  Paul  the  Apostle,  59th  Street  and  Ninth 
Avenue.  New  York  City.    He  had  no  children.    He  died  June  3rd,  1894.  at  New  York  City. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES^    HONORS^    RANK. 

Brothers,  Gamma  Nu  and  Alpha  Delta  Phi.     Oration. 

In  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  of  Appeals,  for  the  Second  Circuit,  on  motion  to 
adjourn  Court,  owing  to  the  death  of  Thomas  Greenwood,  late  Assistant  United  States  Dis- 
trict Attorney : 

Mr.  Henry  C.  Platt:  May  it  please  the  Court.  It  is  my  sad  duty  to  announce  the  death 
of  Thomas  Greenwood,  a  member  of  the  Bar  of  twenty-two  years'  standing,  a  familiar  figure 
in  all  the  branches  of  the  Federal  Courts  of  this  District  as  an  Assistant  United  States  At- 
torney. 

Mr.  Gretnwood  was  a  native  of  Rhode  Island,  a  graduate  of  Yale  College  of  the  Class  of 
1867,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  this  city  in  1872.  Prior  to  his  appointment  as  an  As- 
sistant he  was  connected  with  the  office  of  the  United  States  .\ttorney  for  some  nine  years, 
so  that  he  filled  out  a  continuous  public  service  of  seventeen  3'ears,  and  during  all  that  time 
he  was  faithful  and  efficient  in  the  performance  of  the  duties  assigned  to  him,  and  as  your 
Honors  are  well  aware,  he  was  an  able  and  experienced  assistant  in  the  defense  of  Govern- 
ment suits  in  the  line  of  duty  to  which  his  talents  and  time  were  devoted.  He  always 
seemed  to  make  the  Government's  cause  his  own,  and  he  fought  its  battles  with  ingenuity 
and  with  great  pertinacity.  He  continued  his  labors  up  to  within  two  weeks  of  the  time  of  his 
death,  against  the  protest  of  his  friends  and  associates  in  the  office,  who  were  solicitous  of  his 
failing  health,  and  who  urged  him  to  take  the  necessary  rest  and  recuperation.  It  may  be 
well  said  of  him  that  he  died  at  his  post  of  duty,  and  it  seems  to  me  such  faitlifulness  and 
devotion  to  duty,  as  was  evidenced  in  the  career  of  Mr.  Greenwood,  deserves  some  recogni- 
tion from  the  Bench  as  well  as  the  Bar  at  this  time,  and  I  therefore  ask  that  this  Court  pause 
long  enough  in  the  press  of  public  business  in  order  that  some  recognition  of  his  death  may 
be  entered  upon  the  records  of  this  Court,  which  motion  I  now  make. 

Mr.  Stephen  G.  Clarke  :  In  behalf  erf  the  Bar.  and  more  particularly  in  behalf  of  that 
class  of  cases  in  which  Mr.  Greenwood  was  engaged,  I  desire  to  second  that  motion,  and  I 
endorse  every  word  Mr.  Platt  has  said.  Mr.  Greenwood  was  a  man  of  unequaled  industry 
and  faithful  to  his  duties:  and.  without  detaining  the  Court.  I  do  not  know  that  I  can  pay  a 
higher  tribute  to  the  memory  of  our  departed  friend  than  to  say  that  in  the  sphere  of  life 
wherein  he  labored    he  performed  his  whole  duty. 

Mr.  William  Wickham  Smith  :  During  the  past  seven  years  I  have  been  very  closely 
associated  with  Mr.  Greenwood,  the    first  half  of  that  time  being  connected  with  him  in  the 

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office  of  the  United  States  Attorney,  and  the  latter  half  contending  against  him  on  the  other 
side  of  the  Bar;  and  I  cannot  let  this  opportunity  go  by  without  bearing  testimony  to  the  fact 
that  I  have  never  known  a  more  diligent,  faithful,  and  conscientious  public  official  than 
Thomas  Greenwood  was.  He  was  not  brilliant,  he  made  no  claim  to  showy  accomplishments, 
but  whatever  his  task  was  he  performed  it  with  the  most  painstaking  fidelity,  and  I  think 
your  Honors  will  remember  that  when  he  had  a  case  to  present  to  the  Court  he  left  no  source 
unexplored  for  argument  or  authority  which  might  enable  the  Court  to  pronounce  its  judg- 
ment. He  made  no  effort  to  take  advantage  of  his  opponents.  He  was  not  anxious  for  the 
mere  glory  of  winning  cases,  but  he  discharged  his  duty  by  presenting  everything  he  could  for 
the  enlightenment  of  the  Court,  letting  the  result  take  care  if  itself.  I  think  that  so  modest 
and  faithful  service  as  his  has  been  should  be  recognized  by  some  word  of  appreciation 
from  the  Bench. 

The  Court  (Wallace,  J.)  :  The  Court  has  heard  of  the  death  of  Mr.  Greenwood  with 
very  great  regret.  He  has  long  been  a  familiar  figure  in  this  Court,  and  in  the  Circuit  Court 
in  this  district,  and  we  have  always  recognized  that  he  brought  to  the  discharge  of  his  duties 
the  utmost  conscientiousness,  and,  as  has  been  said  of  him,  one  of  his  most  pleasing  char- 
acteristics was  his  modesty.  He  always  manifested  a  desire  to  assist  the  Court  to  a  correct 
understanding  of  the  case  under  consideration.  His  sole  aim  was  to  do  his  whole  duty  to  the 
interest  he  represented.  It  seems  very  .sad  that  at  such  a  comparatively  early  age,  with  ap- 
parently so  many  years  of  usefulness  before  him,  he  should  be  stricken  down.  It  is  entirely 
proper  as  a  mark  of  respect  that  the  Clerk  should  make  an  appropriate  entry  on  the  minutes, 
and  the  Court  will  now  so  order. 


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WILDER    BENNETT    HARDING. 


Wilder  Bennett  Harding,  son  of  John  Richardson  and  Lucy  (Bennett)  Harding,  was 
born  at  Putney,  Vt.,  February  6th,  1841. 

He  fitted  for  College  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthainpton,  Mass.,  and  entered  Yale  in 
the  Fall  of  1863. 

On  his  father's  side  he  is  descended  from  the  Hardings  (two  brothers)  who  came  over 
from  England  to  Providence,  R.  I.  They  went  from  that  place  to  Rehoboth,  Mass.,  and  some 
of  the  family  removed  to  Vermont.  On  his  mothers  side  the  Bennetts  came  from  Massa- 
chusetts to  Vermont.  Her  father.  Samuel  Bennett,  of  Putney,  Vt.,  was  a  Revolutionary 
Soldier  and  received  a  pension. 

He  taught  at  Lawrence  Academy,  Groton,  Mass.,  two  years  after  graduation.  Was 
admitted  to  the  Bar  at  East  Cambridge,  Mass.,  in  1869.  Spent  the  Winter  of  that  year  in  the 
Law  Office  of  Taylor  &  Andrews,  New  York  City.     Taught  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  during 

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the  Spring  and  Summer  of  1870.  Taught  at  Stamford,  Conn.,  from  1870-72.  Became  Prin- 
cipal of  Smith's  Academy,  Hatfield,  Mass.,  in  the  Fall  of  1872.  In  July,  1885,  he  left  Hatfield, 
Mass.,  and  located  at  Belfast.  N.  Y.,  taking  the  position  of  Principal  of  the  Genesee  Valley 
Seminary.  This  position  he  held  till  the  Summer  of  1889,  when  he  removed  to  Salem,  N.  Y., 
and  became  Principal  of  the  Washington  Academy  the  September  following.  He  remained 
here  till  the  latter  part  of  March,  1897,  when  he  removed  with  his  family  to  Southwick,  Mass. 
He  married  Sarah  L.  Houghton,  of  Putney,  Vt.,  August  22nd,  1872. 

CHILDREN. 

Harold  Richardson,  born  June  30th,  1879,  Hatfield,  Mass. 

Blanche  H..  born  July  6th,  1881,  Hatfield,  Mass. 

Lucy  Kathleen,  born  December  19th.  1882.  Hatfield,  Mass.;  died  October  nth,  1883.  Hat- 
field, Mass. 

Malcolm  B.,  born  March  29th.  1885,  Hatfield,  ^lass. 

Harold  R.  graduated  from  Washington  Academy,  Salem,  N.  Y.,  in  1896,  and  has  spent 
one  year  in  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Waltham,  Mass. 

Blanche  Houghton  graduated  from  the  Washington  Academy  in  1897,  and  is  taking  an 
advanced  course  of  study  under  her  father. 

Malcolm  is  at  school  at  Southwick,  Mass. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETTES,    HONORS,    R.\NK. 

Linonia,  Gammu  Xu.  Alpha  Delta  Phi  and  Skull  and  Bones :  2nd  prize  Freshman  Prize 
Debate,  ist  prize  Sophomore  and  Jimior  Prize  Debate,  second  prize  Declamation  third  term 
Sophomore,  Phi  Beta  Kappa.     Oration. 


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ORLANDO    AIP:TCALF    HARPER. 


Orlando  Metcalf  Harper,  son  of  John  and  Lydia  E.  (Metcalf)  Harper,  was  born  in 
Pittsburg,  Pa.,  September  17th,  1846.'  He  fitted  for  College  under  George  Woods,  LL.  D., 
at  the  Western  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  entered  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63.  After  his 
preparation  at  the  Western  University  of  Pennsylvania  Mr.  Harper  entered  Ya;e.  Near  the 
close  of  the  Sophomore  year  he  was  compelled  to  sever  his  connection  with  the  University 
on  account  of  a  permanent  injury  to  his  eyes.  At  an  early  period  of  hi.,  life  his  tastes  and 
bent  of  mind  were  such  that  he  proposed  to  devote  himself  to  literary  and  scholarly  pursuits, 
and  up  to  the  time  of  the  injury  of  his  eyes  he  used  his  best  energies  and  diligently  pursued 
his  studies  to  that  end.  With  this  injury,  however,  his  love  for  and  devotion  to  literary  and 
scholarly  matters  did  not  terminate.  After  his  connection  with  Yale  University  ceased  he 
became  an  active  member  of  various  literary,  musical  and  dramatic  associations  of  Pittsburg, 
his  native  city.       For  a  time  he  was  on  the  staff  of  a  paper  of  that  city,  and  contributed 

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numerous  articles  on  subjects  of  public  interest — the  telephone,  on  cotton  and  other  manufac- 
tures, on  musical  subjects,  reviews,  stories,  poems,  and  fugitive  pieces. 

Private  interests  and  the  condition  of  his  eyes  have,  however,  necessarily  made  him  a 
business  man,  and  for  nineteen  years  he  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  cotton  goods  at 
Pittsburg,  Pa.  While  residing  there  he  was  President  of  the  Eagle  Cotton  Mills  Co.  of 
Pittsburg,  President  of  the  Eagle  Cotton  Mills  Co.  of  Madison.  Ind. ;  2nd  Vice-President 
of  the  Association  of  Western  and  Southern  Manufacturers,  a  director  of  the  Bank  of 
Pittsburg,  and  a  director  of  the  Pittsburg  and  Allegheny  Suspension  Bridge  Co.  In  1888 
he  organized  the  business  now  bearing  his  name,  in  New  York,  and  since  he  has  made  his 
residence  in  that  city  he  has  become  President  of  the  Merchants'  Reliance  Co.,  a  trustee  of  the 
Birkbeck  Investment  Savings  and  Loan  Co.,  a  member  of  the  Cotton  Exchange,  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  of  the  Merchants',  Manhattan  and  Commercial  Clubs,  of  the  Sons 
of  the  American  Revolution,  of  the  New  England  Society,  of  the  New  York  Geographical 
and  Historical  Societies,  and  of  the  Metropolitan  ^Museum  of  Art. 

He  has  always  had  a  great  affection  for  Yale,  and  has  been  devoted  to  her  interests,  and  is 
an  enthusiastic  member  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association. 

On  November  22nd,  1877.  Mr.  Harper  married  Kathleen  T.  Ludlow,  daughter  of  J. 
Livingston  Ludlow,  M.  D.,  of  Philadelphia,  and  granddaughter  of  John  Ludlow,  D.  D.. 
LL.D..  Provost  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 

CHILDREN. 

Mary  Ludlow,  born  February  9.  1879,  Pittsburg.  Pa. 

Kathleen  T.  L..  born  December  30th,  1882,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Both  children  have  been  educated  at  Brearly  Annex  and  Brearly  School,  New  York. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS^    R.\NK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa.  In  1892  Yale  University  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  Master 
of  Arts. 


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JOHN     MILTON     HART. 

John  Milton  Hart,  born  at  West  Cornwall,  Conn.,  June  5th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  entered 
the  Class  of  '67  in  '63. 

After  graduating  for  the  first  two  or  three  years  he  taught  at  Rutherford  Park  and 
Wyckoff,  N.  J.  In  the  Fall  of  1870  he  commenced  teaching  in  the  Truant  School  at  New 
Haven,  Conn.  In  the  Fall  of  1874,  after  resigning  his  position  as  teacher,  he  entered  the 
Union  Theological  Seminary,  where  he  graduated  in  May,  1876.  (Nothing  has  been  heard 
of  him  or  from  him  since  that  period.) 

(The  Secretary  would  be  glad  if  any  of  the  Class  ever  hear  directly  or  indirectly  from 
him,  if  they  would  acquaint  him  with  whatever  information  they  receive.) 


Linonia.     First  Colloquy. 


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JOSEPH  WILLIAM  HARTSHORN. 


Joseph  William  Hartshorn,  son  of  Turial  Campbell  and  Phoebe  Colman  (Edgerton) 
Hartshorn,  was  born  at  South  Coventry,  Conn.,  June  22nd,   1840. 

He  fitted  for  College  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Plaven,  Conn.,  and  entered 
the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

His  father  was  a  dealer  in  shoes.  His  ancestry  on  both  the  paternal  and  maternal  side 
of  the  house  was  good.  They  were  persons  of  capacity,  industrious,  self-reliant  and  resolute. 
His  father  was  more  or  less  of  an  invalid  from  the  age  of  t2,  and  died  in  1865  at  the  age  of 
56.     His  mother  died  in  1886,  aged  71  years. 

After  graduation  he  studied  in  the  Yale  Theological  .Seminary,  where  he  was  graduated 
in  May,  1870.  Preached  at  Riverton,  Conn.,  from  July,  1870,  to  March,  1872.  In  November, 
1872,  he  removed  to  Hinsdale.  111.  Preached  there  until  January.  1876.  In  July  of  the  same 
year  removed  to  Naperville,  111.,  where  he  stayed  until  1878,  when  he  again  removed  to  Hins- 

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dale,  111.,  staying  there  from  May,  1878,  until  1880.  He  then  removed  to  Colebrook,  Conn., 
where  he  preached  for  a  little  over  five  years.  From  May,  1885,  to  April,  1886,  on  account 
of  impaired  health,  he  gave  up  work.  Since  A^Iay,  1887,  he  has  been  v^^ithout  a  charge  and 
writes  that  he  has  not  sought  any. 

He  was  married  to  Martha  Hitchcock,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  October  nth,  1870.     They 
have  no  children. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia,  Gammu  Nu,  Alpha  Delta  Phi  and  Skull  and  Bones;  ist  prize  English  Composition 
second  and  third  terms  Sophomore  year.     Yale  Lit.  Editor.     First  Colloquy. 


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FRANK  HENRY  HATHORN. 

Frank  Henry  Hathorn,  son  of  Henry  Harrison  and  Emily  Harriet  (Moriarity)  Hathorn, 
was  born  at  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y..  June  9,  1847. 

He  fitted  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and  entered  Yale  Class  of  '67 
in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

His  ancestry  on  both  the  paternal  and  maternal  side  of  the  house  was  Scotch.  His 
father  was  proprietor  of  Congress  Hall  and  one  of  Saratoga's  Mineral  Springs,  viz:  the  Ha- 
thorn Spring.  He  was  also  a  politician,  having  held  several  public  offices,  such  as  Sheriff  of 
Saratoga  County,  Supervisor  of  Saratoga  Springs,  and  Member  of  Congress  for  two  terms 
during  the  administration  of  General  Grant.     He  died  in  the  Winter  of  '87. 

Frank  has  followed  his  father's  footsteps  and  has  been  taking  care  of  his  father's  business 
ever  since  graduation. 


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During  the  year  1882  he  traveled  in  Europe.     He  was  married  October  28,   1884,  to  A. 
Kate  Fonda,  of  Louisville.  Ky.,  and  has  one  child. 

CHILDREN. 

Florence  Fonda,  born  April  7,  1889,  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Phi  Theta  Psi,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key.  First  prize  Sopho- 
more Prize  Debate;  second  prize  Declamation  third  term  Sophomore.     First  Colloquy. 


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THOMAS  HEDGE. 


Thomas  Hedge,  son  of  Thomas  and  Eliza  Burr  (Eldridge)  Hedge,  was  born  at  Burling- 
ton, la.,  June  24,  1844. 

His  parents  were  both  natives  of  Yarmouth,  Mass.     Both  his  grandfathers  were  seafaring 
men,  and  their  parents  before  them,  way  back  to  the  first  settlement  of  Cape  Cod. 

Tom  came  to  us  from  '66,  their  loss  and  our  great  gain.  He  entered  '67  the  beginning  of 
Junior  year,  in  1865.  After  graduation  he  entered  Columbia  Law  School  in  October,  1876,  and 
graduated  in  May,  i86g.  He  then  removed  to  his  home  in  Burlington,  Iowa,  where  he  has 
been  practicing  law  ever  since.  His  firm  is  Hedge  &  Blythe — Thomas  Hedge,  Joseph  William 
Blythe,  Attorneys  for  the  C,  B.  &  Q.  R.  R.  Co.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Fifty-sixth 
Congress  from  Burlington,  Iowa,  in  November,  1898. 

He  was  married  to  Mary  J.  Cook,  of  Burlington,  Iowa,  on  January  8,  1873. 

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Thomas,  Jr.,  born  September  27th,   1874,  Burlington,  Iowa. 

Lyman  Cook,  born  January  i6th,   1877,  Burlington,  Iowa. 

Anna  Louise,  born  December  6th,  1882,  Burlington,  Iowa. 

Henry  Lorrain,  born  June  15,  1885,  Burlington,  Iowa. 

Thomas,  Jr.,  graduated  at  the  Hotchkiss  School  at  Lakeville,  Conn.,  in  '94,  and  entered 
Yale,  Class  of  '98 — that  is,  passed  all  his  examinations  satisfactorily,  but  preferring  to  go  into 
business,  gave  up  the  College  course  and  entered  the  employ  of  Gilbert  Hedge  &  Co.,  lumber 
merchants,  for  three  years. 

Lyman  Cook  graduated  at  the  Hotchkiss  School  in  1896,  and  entered  Yale,  Class  of  1900, 
being  now  in  his  Junior  year. 

Anna  Louise  and  Henry  Lorrain  are  attending  the  Common  Schools  at  Burlington.  Iowa. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  Alpha  Sigma  Phi,  Delta  Beta  Chi,  D.  K.  E.  and  Skull  and  Bones.      Townsend. 


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NELSON  POWELL  HULST. 

Nelson  Powell  Hulst,  son  of  Garrett  and  Nancy  (Powell)  Hulst,  was  born  at  East 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  February  8,  1844. 

He  fitted  for  college  under  Francis  Miller  at  the  Stanmore  School,  Sandy  Springs,  Md. 

His  father,  Garrett  Hulst,  was  a  merchant.  On  both  the  paternal  and  maternal  side  of 
the  house  his  ancestry  goes  back  to  the  early  days  of  the  New  Netherlands  Colony. 

Since  graduation  he  has  been  a  student  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  his  profession 
being  metallurgy.  Was  Assistant  Instructor  in  Assaying  in  Sheffield  Scientific  School  during 
1869-70.  Took  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  in  1869  and  Ph.D.  in  1870.  In  the  same  year  he  began 
work  with  the  Milwaukee  Iron  Co.,  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  as  engineer,  chemist  and  general  tech- 
nical man,  and  continued  with  the  corporation  until  its  failure  in  1875.  In  1876  he  began  to 
open  up  iron  mines  on  the  Menominee  Range,  Mich.,  for  some  of  the  officers  of  the  defunct 
Milwaukee  Iron  Company,  and  was  a  stockholder  with  them  in  their  corporation,  called  the 


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Menominee  Mining  Co.  He  was  general  superintendent  for  this  company  until  ill  health  in 
1882  compelled  him  to  cease  all  active  work.  In  1887  he  became  manager  and  part  owner  of  the 
Pewabic  Company,  a  corporation  organized  for  mining  iron  ore  on  the  Menominee  Range, 
Mich.  In  October,  1897,  was  called  to  the  position  of  General  ^Manager  of  all  the  Lake  Supe- 
rior mining  interests  of  Carnegie-Oliver  Company,  which  are  located  on  the  Gogebic  Range, 
Mich.,  and  Mesaba  Range,  Minnesota,  retaining  still  the  management  of  the  Pewabic  Com- 
pany. 

Was  married  to  Florence  Terry  at  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  May  13,  1875. 


Henry  Terry,  born  May  12,  1876,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Clarence  Powell,  born  February  i,  1878,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Alfred  Nelson,  born  August  17,  1884,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Henry  Terry  graduated  in  the  Class  of  '98,  Yale  Sheffield  Scientific  School. 

Clarence  Powell  is  in  the  Yale  Academic  Department  in  the  Class  of  1900. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,  HONORS,  RANK. 

Brothers,  Gamma  Nu,  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Spoonman. 


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WILLIAM  HENRY  INGHAM. 

William  Henry  Ingham,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Harriet  Howell  (Sinnickson)  Ingham, 
was  born  at  Great  Springs,  Pa.,  December  ii,  1844. 

He  fitted  for  college  (Yale)  under  R.  H.  Labberton,  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

His  father  was  a  college  man.  His  ancestors  on  both  sides  of  the  house  came  to  America 
in  the  middle  of  the  Seventeenth  Century.  They  were  appointed  by  the  Crown  to  positions  of 
honor  and  trust,  which  they  occupied  till  the  change  of  government  caused  by  the  War  of  the 
Revolution.  In  this  they  took  part,  contributing  also  their  time  and  their  means  for  its  suc- 
cessful issue. 

Immediately  upon  graduating  was  engaged  in  the  manufacturing  business  in  Easton,  Pa. 
About  the  year  1873  he  engaged  in  the  coal  business  in  Philadelphia.  Pa.  His  business  ad- 
dress is  Girard  Trust  Building,  Chestnut  and  Broad  streets,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


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He  was  married  to  Mary  E.  Alaxwell  at  Easton,  Pa.,  January  28th,  1869. 

CHILDREN. 

Elizabeth  Howell,  born  February  19th,  1870,  Easton,  Pa. 
Harriet  Clifford,  born  October  6th,  1871,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Howard  Maxwell,  born  April  14th,  1877,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Robert  Maxwell,  born  December  13th,  1881,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
His  two  daughters  graduated  from  Miss  Irwin's  School,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Howard  Maxwell  graduated  from  Yale  (Sheffield  Scientific)  in  1897. 
Robert  Maxwell  is  studying  at  the  Hotchkiss  School  at  Lakeville,  Conn. 
The  elder  returns  to  Yale  for  a  Post-Graduate  course  and  the  younger  intends  to  enter 
Yale  in  1899. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,  HONORS,  RANK. 

Brothers,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Phi  Theta  Psi  and  Psi  Upsilon.     Second  Colloquy. 


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CHARLES  BULKELEY  JENNINGS. 

Charles  Bulkeley  Jennings,  son  of  Edmund  Burke  Jennings  (Class  '39,  Williams  Col- 
lege) and  Cynthia  Melissa  (Bulkeley)  Jennings,  was  born  at  Tuskegee,  Ala.,  July  3rd,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  at  the  Bartlett  High  School,  New  London,  Conn.,  and  entered  '67 
Senior  year,  coming  from  the  Class  of  '66. 

Ebenezer  Jennings,  his  grandfather,  was  a  graduate  of  Williams  College,  Class  of  1809, 
and  his  great-grandfather.  Joseph  Jennings,  took  part  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 

Entered  the  Class  at  the  beginning  of  the  Senior  year.  Entered  Williams  College  in 
September,  1862.  remaining  there  one  year.  Entered  Princeton  in  October,  1863,  remaining 
there  six  months.  Entered  '66  at  Yale  in  the  second  term  Sophomore,  and  left  on  account  of 
poor  health  at  the  end  of  Junior  year.  Then  entered  '67  as  above  stated,  in  which  Class  he 
graduated.  After  graduation  he  taught  one  year  at  the  New  London  High  School,  since 
which  time  he  has  been   Principal  of  the   Colt   Street   Grammar   School   and   Nathan   Hale 


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Grammar  School.  Was  elected  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  1890,  visited  Europe  in  '95, 
journeying  to  England,  France,  Holland  and  Germany.  He  made  the  trips  with  special  ref- 
erence to  inspecting  the  Cathedrals  and  to  gain  information  in  reference  to  the  Church  music 
connected  with  them. 

Has  been  married  twice;  his  first  wife  was  ]Mary  F.  Tracey.  of  New  London,  Conn., 
whom  he  married  December  21st,  1871.  She  died  February  23rd,  1889.  By  this  union  he  had 
four  children. 

CHILDREN. 

Ruth  May,  born  May  19th.  1873,  New  London,  Conn. 

Thomas  Haven,  born  July  i8th,  1875.  New  London,  Conn. 

Alfred  Chappell.  born  August  17th,  1877,  New  London,  Conn. 

Alice,  born  July  7th,  1880,  New  London,  Conn. 

On  August  7th,  1890,  he  married  Myra  B.  Fitch. 

Ruth  May  graduated  from  The  New  London  High  School  in  the  Summer  oi  1890. 

Thomas  Haven  graduated  from  The  New  London  High  School  in  1893,  and  is  in  the 
employ  of  The  G.  W.  Williams  Co.  (Hardware). 

Alfred  Chappell  graduated  from  The  New  London  High  School  in  1897,  and  entered  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  in  the  Fall  of  the  same  year. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia,  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Honorary  Wolf's  Head  1894. 


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♦ALEXANDER  JOHNSTON. 


♦Alexander  Johnston,  son  of  Frank  Johnston  (Yale  College,  1835)  and  Mary  E.  John- 
ston, was  born  in  Allegheny  City,  Pa.,  October  21st,  1843,  and  died  of  diphtheria  at  Somer- 
ville,  Mass.,  May  Sth,  1876.  He  fitted  for  College  under  Rev.  Mr.  Hutchinson  at  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  and  entered  '67  on  December  20th,  1864. 

He  entered  with  the  Class  of  1866,  and  at  the  end  of  the  first  year  left  College  to  return 
a  year  later  to  the  Class  of  '67.  He  graduated  at  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  1871.  having 
lost  one  year  from  ill-health.  He  then  spent  a  year  in  charge  of  the  Congregational  Church 
in  Quindaro.  Kan.,  and  in  the  Fall  of  1872  removed  to  Oberlin,  Ohio,  where  he  studied  for 
the  following  year  in  the  Theological  Seminary.  In  May,  1873,  he  sailed  for  Europe,  and 
devoted  himself  for  two  years  to  the  study  of  Logic  and  Metaphj'sics  in  Berlin,  Prussia,  hop- 
ing to  spend  his  future  life  in  the  study  and  teaching  of  these  branches.  He  returned  to 
America  in  the  summer  of  1875.  and  in  November  settled  in  Boston,  Mass.,  for  the  Winter. 


But  his  health  broke  down  in  February  from  overwork,  and  he  was  removed  to  the  McLean 
Asylum  in  Somerville,  Mass.,  for  what  was  believed  to  be  only  a  temporary  loss  of  mental 
power,  and  there  died.  (See  Merriam's  remarks,  during  the  reading  of  the  Secretary's  Re- 
port at  the  Decennial.) 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES^    HONORS^    RANK. 

Linonia,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Phi  Theta  Psi,  Psi    Upsilon.     Second  Dispute. 


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SAMUEL    KEELER. 

Samuel  Keeler,  son  of  LeGrand  W.  and  Catherine  (Lockwood)  Keeler,  was  born  at 
Wilton,  Conn.,  November  22nd,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Edward  Olnistead  at  Wilton  Academy,  Connecticut, 
and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

On  his  father's  side  he  was  descended  from  Ralph  Keeler,  who  came  to  Hartford.  Conn., 
in  1635. 

His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Horatio  Lockwood,  of  Poundridge,  West  Chester 
County,  N.  Y.  Her  grandfather  was  Ebenezer  Lockwood,  a  Major  in  the  Revolutionary 
War,  and  was  descended  from  the  Lockwoods   who  settled  in  Watertown,  Mass.,  about  1630. 

In  the  year  1868  he  taught  school  and  studied  law.  In  October,  1871,  he  was  admitted  to 
the  Bar  in  Norwalk,  Conn.,  where  he  practiced  Law  for  a  short  time.     In  October,  1872,  he 


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went  to  New  York  City,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the  Bar.  and  has  since  been  practicing 
there. 

Was  married  to  Arvilla  P.  Bailey,  February  8th,  1888,  in  New  York  City. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES^    HONORS^    RANK. 

Brothers,  Gamma  Nu,  and  Alpha  Delta  Phi.     Dissertation. 


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LUTHER    HART    KITCHEL. 


Luther  Hart  Kitchel,  son  of  Harvey  Denison  Kitchel  ( Middlebury,  Vt.,  College,  1834) 
and  Ann  Smith  (Sheldon)  Kitchel,  was  born  at  Plymouth  Hollow,  Conn.,  November  6th, 
184s. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  S.  H.  Taylor  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 
He  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

He  was  one  of  the  best  all-round  scholars  and  athletes  we  had  in  our  Class.  He  was 
good  in  all  studies  and  the  same  could  be  said  of  him  in  all  sports.  No  one  in  the  Class  gave 
promise  of  a  brighter  future. 

After  graduating,  was  teacher  at  his  native  place  during  the  years  1867-68.  Was  a 
student  of  Medicine  in  the  Buffalo  General  Hospital  and  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons, New  York  City,  1868-71 ;  Home  Physician  and  Surgeon  in  the  Buffalo  General  Hos- 
pital,  1871-82.     In  practice  at  Warsaw,  N.  Y.,  1872-73 ;  at  Olean,   1873-75 ;  at  Alden,   1875- 

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8o;  he  then  removed  to  Hamihon,  Hamilton  County,  Texas,  where  he  practiced  as  a  physician 
until  June,  1885,  when  he  came  North  and  settled  in  Genesee  County,  N.  Y.,  first  at  Pem- 
broke, and  after  staying  there  a  year  he  went  to  Corfu,  in  the  same  County,  where  he  resided 
till  1896.      In  1896  he  moved  to  Alden,  N.  Y.,  his  wife's  home,  where  he  now  resides. 
He  was  married  at  Alden,  N.  Y.,  August  7th,  1873,  to  Mary  Durkee. 

CHILDREN. 

Alice  Cornelia,  born  June  4th,  1874,  Olean,  N.  Y. ;  died  May  2,  1875,  Olean,  N.  Y. 
Marguerite  Tyrrel,  born  April  3rd,  1876,  Olean,  N.  Y. 

Harriet  Harvey,  born  August  2nd,  1877,  Alden,  N.  Y. ;  died  August  6th,  1878,  Mt.  Calm, 
Texas. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Phi  Theta  Psi,  Psi  Upsilon.     Oration,  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 


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ALBERT     EUGENE    LAMB. 

Albert  Eugene  Lamb,  son  of  Edward  and  Jane  Elizabeth  (Smith)  Lamb,  was  born  at 
Worcester,  Mass.,  November  gth,  1843. 

He  fitted  for  College  under  Harris  R.  Greene  at  the  Worcester  High  School,  and  entered 
the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

His  father's  name  was  Edward  Lamb.  He  was  not  a  College  man.  He  was  an  architect 
and  builder.  His  father's  people  came  to  this  country  in  1630,  from  England,  settling  in  Rox- 
bury,  Mass.  His  mother's  people  were  Scotch-Irish,  and  came  to  this  country  in  1717.  Both 
his  grandfathers  were  officers  in  the  .American  Revolution. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  three  years  in  the  Free  Academy,  Norwich,  Conn.,  while 
at  the  .same  time  he  pursued  his  legal  studies,  being  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  the  State  of 
Connecticut,  April  7th,  1870.  In  the  Fall  of  that  year  he  settled  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and 
entered  the  office  of  C.  vfe  S.  Condit.     Was  admitted  as  a  member  of  that  firm  in  January,  1873. 


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In  October,  1876,  upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Charles  Condit,  the  firm  name  was  changed  to  Condit 
&  Lamb.  In  April,  1881,  he  dissolved  partnership  with  Mr.  Condit,  and  formed  a  law  partner- 
ship with  Jesse  Johnson  and  A.  R.  Johnson,  under  the  firm  name  of  Johnson  &  Lamb.  In 
1897  Jesse  Johnson  retired,  and  the  firm  name  became  Lamb  &  Johnson.  His  address  is  189 
Montague  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  at  Brooklyn,  April  i6th,  1879,  to  Annie  L.  Kendall. 

CHILDREN. 

William  Kendall,  born  October  12th,  1881,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  died  March  20th,  1883, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Edward,  born  June  27th,  1884,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  died  November  27th,  1891,  Brooklyn. 
N.  Y. 

Grace  Fay,  born  September  i6th,  1887,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Grace  Fay  Lamb,  10  years  of  age,  is  now  attending  school  at  the  Berkeley  Institute. 

Lamb  has  traveled  extensively  abroad. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Delta  Beta  Chij  D.  K.  E.  and  Skull  and  Bones ;  2nd  prize  in  Linonia 
Prize  Debate  Freshman,  Sophomore  and  Junior  years,  3rd  prize  Senior  year ;  3rd  prize  Decla- 
mation third  term  Sophomore.    Second  Dispute. 


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*HARRY  GARDNER  LANDIS. 

*Harry  Gardner  Landis,  son  of  Henry  David  Landis  and  Katherine  (Pierce)  Landis, 
was  born  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  June  4th,  1848.  Died  on  the  22nd  of  May,  1886,  in  Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 

He  fitted  for  College  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.  Entered  the  Class  in  January,  1864.  Was  a 
student  for  three  years  after  graduation  at  the  Jefferson  Medical  College,  Philadelphia.  Was 
then  a  Resident  Physician  in  the  Philadelphia  Hospital  for  some  time.  Shortly  after  the 
"Triennial"  he  removed  to  Niles.  Ohio,  where  he  continued  the  practice  of  Medicine  until 
August,  1877,  when  he  accepted  the  Professorship  of  Obstetrics  and  Diseases  of  Women  and 
Children  at  the  Starling  Medical  College,  Columbus,  Ohio.  He  was  the  author  of  a  treatise 
entitled  "How  to  Use  the  Forceps,"  published  in  1880. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  the  Pathological  Society  of 
Philadelphia,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  Professor  in  the  aforementioned  College. 

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The  following  account  the  Secretary  takes  from  a  medical  journal  which  has  been  fur- 
nished him,  relative  to  the  death  of  Mr.  Landis,  the  account  being  from  a  physician  and  resi- 
dent of  Columbus,  Ohio,  where  the  deceased  resided  at  the  time  of  his  death : 

"  On  the  22nd  of  May  last,  1886,  at  his  father's  house,  in  Chestnut  Hill,  near  Philadelphia, 
Harry  Gardner  Landis  died.  Although  it  was  known  that  he  was  failing  rapidly,  and  that  his 
death  was  only  a  question  of  time,  yet  to  those  who  knew  him  and  loved  him  the  news  came 
with  a  great  shock.  Naturally  brilliant  and  extremely  well  educated.  Dr.  Landis  was  a  man  who 
had  already  won  an  enviable  position  for  himself,  and  had  his  life  been  spared  for  further 
study  and  work,  would  have  gained  an  undying  fame.  Born  in  Philadelphia  in  1848,  had  he 
lived  until  the  4th  of  June,  he  would  have  completed  his  thirty-eighth  year.  To  few  men  it  is 
given  to  accomplish  so  much  when  so  young,  to  be  so  well  known  to  the  world  of  medicine, 
and  at  the  same  time  to  be  so  well  read  in  general  literature,  English  history  and  Biblical 
studies. 

"  His  parents  came  from  old  Philadelphia  families,  and  though  his  mother  died  when 
he  was  a  small  boy,  yet  his  stepmother,  the  sister  of  Gen.  Reynolds,  the  hero  of  Gettysburg, 
filled  her  place,  and  the  affection  he  felt  and  manifested  for  her  was  extremely  touching. 

"Sent  to  Lawrenceville,  N.  J.,  to  school,  he  went  from  there  to  Yale  College,  at  the  age  of 
15,  and  was  graduated  when  but  19  years  old,  the  youngest  man  in  a  class  of  one  hun- 
dred and  one.  Deciding  to  study  medicine,  in  company  with  Dr.  J.  C.  Wilson,  of 
Philadelphia,  he  was  entered  as  student  in  the  office  of  Dr.  W.  W.  Keen,  and  attended  lectures 
at  the  Jefferson  Medical  College.  For  two  years  after  his  graduation  he  was  in  the  laboratory 
of  Dr.  S.  Weir  Mitchell  at  the  old  'Chant  Street  School  of  Anatomy,'  and  while  there  fostered 
and  cultivated  those  habits  and  tastes  for  the  study  of  nature  of  every  form,  which  were  after- 
wards so  characteristic  of  the  man.  An  inmate  at  Blockley  Hospital  for  the  allotted  term, 
he  began  to  devote  his  time  and  attention  to  that  branch  of  medicine  which  was  his  specialty 
and  in  connection  with  which  his  name  will  ever  be  remembered — gynecology.  In  1871  he  re- 
moved to  Ohio  and  settled  at  Niles,  in  Trumbull  County,  practicing  medicine  in  partnership 
with  Dr.  Leitch.  In  1877,  at  the  advice  and  through  the  influence  of  Dr.  Loving,  he  came 
to  Columbus  as  the  Professor  of  Gynecology  and  Obstetrics  in  Starling  College.  Of  his 
ability  and  wit  as  a  lecturer  there  is  no  necessity  to  speak,  for  those  who  have  attended  his 
lectures  can  recall  more  vividly  than  any  pen  can  describe  his  inimitable  manner,  the  stores 
of  learning  which  seemed  to  flow  so  easily  from  his  well-trained  mind,  his  caustic  satire,  and 
quick  discernment.  But  it  was  not  as  a  lecturer  merely  that  Dr.  Landis  excelled.  He  was  a 
ready  and  admirable  writer,  and  he  is  known  to  the  medical  world  by  his  magazine  articles 
and  papers,  as  well  as  by  his  books.  His  first  work  was  'How  to  Use  the 
Forceps,'  then  followed  'Quiz  Compend'  on  Obstetrics,'  and  his  last  volume, 
written  when  his  health  was  failing,  and  finished  before  his  final  illness,  has 
just  been  published.  Those  who  were  his  friends  knew  how  patiently  he  worked,  when  every 
breath  was  drawn  with  pain,  and  he  was  so  feeble  that  he  could  hardly  sit  at  his  desk.  Although 
he  never  lived  to  see  the  result  of  his  efforts,  yet  his  masterly  treatise  on  the   'Management  of 


Labor'  will  be  his  most  enduring  monument.  In  1883  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  American 
Association,  which  met  at  Cleveland,  and  one  of  the  readers  in  the  Gynecological  Section. 
In  1884  he  delivered  the  address  before  the  Alumni  Association  of  Jefferson  Medical  College 
the  subject  of  which  was  'The  Need  of  General  Culture  for  the  Physician.'  And  there  was 
no  man  who  ever  gave  a  better  example  of  that  polish,  culture  and  literary  accomplishment 
than  Dr.  Landis.  A  Bible  scholar  of  no  mean  order,  his  Greek  Testament  was  his  con- 
stant companion,  and  there  was  not  a  single  theological  question,  not  a  single  theory,  with 
which  he  was  not  acquainted.  In  fact,  a  clergyman  would  have  to  'verify  his  references'  very 
carefully  before  he  discussed  theology  with  him.  A  great  admirer  of  Plato,  he  had  studied 
the  'Republic'  so  thoroughly  that  he  could  quote  from  it  with  perfect  freedom.  The  whole 
range  of  English  Literature  and  History  was  familiar  to  him,  and  in  the  back  of  his  copy  of 
'Green's  History'  is  pasted  a  table  of  the  English  Sovereigns,  which  he  made  in  some  leisure 
moments,  to  show  that  Queen  Victoria  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Alfred  the  Great.  An  ento- 
mologist of  a  very  high  grade,  his  collection  of  Lepidoptera  and  Coleoptera  filled  a  large  case 
that  stood  in  his  office.  A  painter  in  oil,  a  woodcarver  and  a  photographer,  some  of  his  work 
was  perfectly  exquisite.  In  fact,  he  was  one  of  those  rare  men  who  do  everything  well,  and 
to  the  little  circle  of  intimate  friends,  the  band  of  chosen  spirits  of  which  he  was  the  leading 
figure,  his  early  death  will  ever  be  a  cause  of  sorrow,  while  to  that  larger  world  which  knows 
him  in  his  writings  and  publications,  it  will  always  be  a  source  of  regret  that  he  who  had 
begun  so  well  and  given  such  signs  of  genius,  had  not  been  spared  to  follow  the  path  which  he 
had  marked  out  for  himself." 

He  was  married  to  Elizabeth  B.  Hafey  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  April  9,  1871. 

CHILDREN. 

Henry  Robert  Murray,  born  February  3d,  1872,  Niles,  Ohio. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES.    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers  and  Alpha  Delta  Phi. 


FRANK  LIBBEY. 

Frank  Libbey,  son  of  Joseph  and  Louisa  (Myers)  Libbey  was  born  at  Georgetown,  D. 
C,  January  20th,   1847. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Francis  Miller  at  Sandy  Spring,  Md.,  and  entered 
the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

His  father  was  a  merchant  engaged  in  the  lumber  business.  On  both  the  paternal  and 
maternal  side  of  the  house  his  ancestors  were  soldiers  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  His  great- 
grandfather on  his  mother's  side,  John  De  Mier,  enlisted  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  in  the  War  of  the 
Revolution,  and  on  his  father's  side  hjs  grandfather,  John  Libbey,  fought  during  the  early  part 
of  the  Revolution  and  served  in  the  attack  on  Ticonderoga  at  16  years  of  age. 

Has  been  engaged  since  graduation  in  the  lumber  business,  residing  at  Georgetown,  and 
more  recently  at  Washington,  D.  C. 


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The  firm  name  was  at  first  Willett  &  Libbey,  then  Libbey,  Bittinger  &  Miller,  and  is  now 
Frank  Libbey  &  Co. 

Was  married  to  Emma  Valient  at  Washington,  D.  C,  March  22,  1876. 

CHILDREN. 

Clara,  born  April  15th,  1877,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  died  April  19th,  1877,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Ethel,  born  June  5,  1878,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Emily  May,  born  June  15th,  1880,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Florence,  born  August  25th,  1882,  Washington.  D.  C. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES^    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  Gamma  Nu,  D.  K.  E.  and  Skull  and  Bones.     Second  Prize  Brothers  Freshman 
Prize  Debate;  second  Dispute. 


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MATTHEW  DARBYSHIRE  MANN. 

Matthew  Darbyshire  Mann,  son  of  Charles  A.  and  Emma  (Bagg)  Mann,  was  born 
at  Utica,  N.  Y.,  July  12th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  college  at  Rome,  N.  Y.,  under  S.  H.  Smith. 

His  father  was  a  graduate  of  Fairfield  Academy,  N.  Y.  He  studied  law  and  practiced  his 
profession  in  Utica  till  his  death.  On  his  father's  and  mother's  side  of  the  house  his  ances- 
tors are  of  New  England  stock  and  came  over  from  England  about  1640. 

After  graduating  traveled  in  the  West  for  some  time.  On  his  return  he  studied  law 
three  months  at  Utica  and  then  went  to  New  York  City  and  studied  medicine,  receiving  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  in  1870  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  He  then  continued 
to  practice  in  New  York  City  till  April  3,  1872,  when  he  went  to  Europe,  where  he  continued 
the  study  of  medicine  in  Vienna.  In  the  Fall  of  1873  he  returned  to  New  York  City,  where 
he  continued  to  practice  until  May,  1879,  holding  the  position  of  lecturer  in  the  College  of 


2IS 


Physicians  and  Surgeons.  He  then  removed  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  practiced  there  for 
three  years,  practicing  only  as  a  specialist  in  diseases  of  women. 

In  1879  he  was  appointed  Clinical  Lecturer  on  diseases  of  women  in  the  ^Medical  Depart- 
ment of  Yale  College,  and  held  this  position  two  years,  and  then  resigned.  In  December,  1881, 
was  asked  to  deliver  a  course  of  lectures  on  Obstetrics  and  Diseases  of  Women  in  the  Medi- 
cal Department  of  the  University  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  At  the  end  of  the  course  he  was  invited  to 
take  the  Chair  of  Obstetrics  and  Gynecology  in  this  University,  which  offer  was  accepted,  and 
in  May,  1882.  he  removed,  with  his  family,  to  Buffalo.  N.  Y.  He  has  been  very  successful  in 
his  practice.  Author  of  "Manual  of  Prescription  Writing"  (New  York,  1878),  and  numerous 
articles  on  Gynecology,  Associate  Editor  of  "Archives  of  Medicine,"  1879-81 ;  "Medical  Press 
of  Western  New  York"   since   1883. 

Was  married  to  Elizabeth  Pope.  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  Nov.  nth,  1869. 


Helen,  born  September  12th.  1870,  St.  Paul,  Minn. ;  died  September  3d.  1887,  St.  Paul 
Minn. 

Ethel,  born  January  19th.  1873.  Vienna.  Austria. 

Edward  Cox.  born  September  5th.  1874.  New  York  City. 

Emma,  born  August  12th.  1876.  Keyport.  N.  J. ;  died  February  28th.  1877. 

Arthur  Sitgreaves.  born  August  i8th,  1878.  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Paul  Ford,  born  February  12th.   1881.  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Matt  D.,  Jr.,  born  April  nth,  1884.  Buffalo.  N.  Y. 

Allen  Newhall.  born  July  3d.  1886.  Buffalo.  N.  Y. 

Ethel  Mann  married  Harlow  C.  Curtiss.  June  18.  1896:  has  a  daughter.  Elizabeth,  bom 
March  27th,  1897. 

Edward  Cox  was  prepared  for  college  and  entered  the  Class  of  '99  at  Cornell,  but  took 
out  an  honorable  dismissal  after  two  years'  study,  and  before  graduation,  and  entered  the  Buf- 
falo University  Medical  School,  where  he  will  graduate  in  the  Class  of  1901. 

Arthur  Sitgreaves  fitted  for  Yale  and  entered  the  Class  of  '99,  graduating  with  that  class. 

Paul  Ford  is  in  the  Senior  Class  of  St.  Paul's  School  at  Concord,  N.  Y. 

The  other  children  are  at  school  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 


COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  Delta  Kappa  and  Psi  Upsilon.    First  Colloquy. 


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L'j1!S<  .t  -  Vft^^.';;;.^!?^..-^?^, 


JAMES  FISKE  MERRIAM. 

James  Fiske  Merriam,  son  of  George  and  Abbey  (Fiske)  Merriam,  was  born  at  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  May  2,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Dr.  J.  H.  Raymond  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  Insti- 
tute, and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  1863. 

His  father  was  a  printer  by  occupation  and  became  the  joint  owner,  with  his  brother 
Charles,  and  later  his  brother  Homer,  of  the  copyright  of  Webster's  Dictionary  from  1843  to 
his  death  in  1880.  Although  at  his  death  he  left  an  estate  worth  upwards  of  half  a  million 
his  business  did  not  command  so  intense  an  energy  as  did  his  domestic  and  religious  life.  In- 
comparably his  most  lively  memories  of  his  childhood  connection  with  him  are  those  of  his 
ardent  omnipresent  solicitude  that  his  children  develop  trustworthy  character. 

His  mother.  Abbey  Fiske,  was  a  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Fiske,  of  New  Braintree. 
Mass.  She  was  born  into  an  atmosphere  of  intelligence,  had  a  world  of  good  sense,  and  fully 
shared  the  religious  convictions  of  her  father. 


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After  graduation  he  spent  the  first  three  years  in  studying  theology  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
and  Andover,  Mass.  In  1870-71  he  accepted  a  call  to  become  the  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  at  Farmington,  Conn.  In  the  Winter  of  1872-73  typhoid  fever  compelled  him  to  stop 
all  work.  During  the  year  1874  he  was  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  until  October.  He  then 
traveled  abroad  for  his  health  and  spent  most  of  the  years  1875-76  in  Europe  with  his  family. 
He  was  agent  of  the  Lombard  Investment  Co.  since  1875;  contributor  to  the  "Christian 
Union,"  Springfield  "Republican,"  etc.  In  the  Fall  of  1876  he  accepted  a  call  from  the  Indian 
Orchard  Congregational  Church  in  Springfield,  Mass.  Spent  the  whole  year  of  1881  in  Cali- 
fornia and  the  year  1882  in  Montclair,  N.  J.  His  health,  which  has  from  time  to  time  been 
poor,  he  writes,  is  now  much  improved. 

He  is  living  at  Springfield,  Mass.,  where  he  says  he  will  always  be  glad  to  see  his  class- 
mates. 

He  has  traveled  a  great  deal  for  his  health,  spent  the  Winter  of  1896  in  Los  Vegas,  New 
Mexico.     He  then  came  East  and  settled  in  Wallingford,  Conn.,  for  a  short  time. 

He  was  married  to  Charlotte  E.  Sprague,  of  Hudson,  N.  Y.,  April  7,  1869. 

CHILDREN. 

Helen  Sprague,  born  September  7th,  1870,  Farmington.  Conn. 
Bessie  Sprague,  born  March  27th,  1872.  Farmington,  Conn. 

Both  his  daughters  were  educated  at  Miss  Porter's  School  in  Farmington,  Conn.,  and 
Mrs.  Piatt's  at  Utica,  N.  Y. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK, 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa,  Phi  Theta  Psi,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones.  First  prize 
English  Composition  second  term  Sophomore,  and  First  prize  Freshman  Prize  Debate  Linonia. 
Phi  Beta  Kappa — Dissertation. 


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*  JAMES  ALEXANDER  MOORE. 

*  James  Alexander  Moore,  son  of  William  and  Eliza  Whitley  (Graydon)  Moore,  was 
born  at  Fredericksted,  St.  Croix,  Danish  West  Indies,  April  28th,  1846,  and  died  November 
29th,  1898,  at  Helena,  Mont. 

He  fitted  for  college  (Yale)  under  Jas.  McElligott,  in  New  York  City,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

After  graduation  he  was  in  business  in  St.  Croix,  Danish  West  Indies,  for  several  years. 
He  left  the  West  Indies  in  1879  and  came  to  New  York  City  to  study  medicine.  He  grad- 
uated at  the  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College,  New  York  City,  in  1883,  and  practiced  there 
until  1893.  He  then  removed  to  Helena,  Mont.,  where  he  practiced  his  profession  till  his 
death.  November  29th,   1898. 

The  Secretary  is  informed  that  he  married  a  widow  and  had  one  child,  who  died  a  few 
months  after  its  birth ;  his  wife  also  died  shortly  after  the  birth  of  his  child. 


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COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Beta  Chi  and  D.  K.  E. 


♦CHARLES    LESLIE    MORGAN. 


*Charles  Leslie  Morgan,  son  of  Capt.  Elisha  E.  and  Eliza  Ann  (Robinson)  Morgan, 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  May  31st,  1847.    Died  in  New  York  City,  May  loth,  1895. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Dr.  Salmon  McCall  at  Saybrook,  Conn.,  and  entered 
the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

Elisha  Ely  Morgan,  father  of  Charles  Leslie  Morgan,  was  born  in  Old  Lynne,  Conn.  For 
a  time  he  commanded  one  of  the  famous  fast  clipper  ships,  sailing  between  New  York  and 
Liverpool,  and  on  two  occasions  or  more  his  ship  was  taken  by  Joseph  Bonaparte,  ex-King  of 
Spain,  for  the  exclusive  use  of  himself  and  suite.  A  warm  friendship  resulted  from  this 
voyaging  together,  and  Capt.  Morgan  also  had  the  pleasure  of  including  Thackeray,  Dickens, 
Sir  Edwin  Landseer,  Charles  Leslie  and  many  other  Royal  Academicians  among  his  dear  and 
intimate  friends.  About  the  time  that  clipper  ships  were  superseded  by  steamships  Capt. 
Morgan  withdrew  from  active  service  and  established  the  shipping  house  of  E.  E.  Morgan, 


which  in  time  was  managed  bj'  Capt.  Morgan's  sons.  His  wife  was  ^liss  Eliza  Robinson,  of 
Petersburg,  Va.,  who  was  educated  abroad  and  was  married  on  her  return  from  school  at 
the  age  of  eighteen. 

On  graduation,  Charles  Leslie  Morgan  engaged  in  the  shipping  and  commission  business 
founded  by  his  father  and  continued  by  his  brother,  William  D.  Morgan  (Yale,  '58),  and  by 
his  own  integrity  and  fidelity  maintained  the  traditional  reputation  of  the  well-known  firm 
which  he  represented.  He  died,  after  a  two  weeks'  illness,  at  his  country  home,  Great  Neck, 
L.  I.,  from  paralysis,  on  May  loth.  1895,  at  the  age  of  48. 

His  firm  was  for  many  years  at  70  South  street,  New  York  City,  but  in  1892  the  address 
was  changed  to  33  South  William  street. 

He  was  married  May  17th,  1877,  to  Lucy  P.,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  John  Allen,  of  Say- 
brook.   Conn. 

CHILDREN. 

Leslie  Allen,  bom  March  4th,   1878,   Saybrook,  Conn. 
Mary  Phelps,  born  June  loth.  1879,  Saybrook,  Conn. 
Eliza  Robinson,  born  April  21st,  1881.  Saybrook,  Conn. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Phi  Theta  Psi  and  Psi  Upsilon. 


WILLIAM  HENRY  MORSE. 

William  Henry  Morse,  son  of  Richard  Cary  Morse  (Yale,  1812)  and  Sarah  Louisa 
(Davis)   Morse,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  January  26th,   1846. 

He  fitted  for  college  (Yale)  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  under  Dr.  S.  H.  Tay- 
lor and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

He  is  in  the  seventh  generation  from  Anthony  Morse,  who  came  over  to  this  country 
in  1635  from  Marlboro,  England,  and  settled  in  Newbury,  Mass.  His  grandfather.  Rev.  Jede- 
diah  Morse,  Congregational  Minister  at  Charlestown,  Mass.,  was  the  author  of  the  first 
Geography  published  in  America — called  the  father  of  the  American  Geography — and  his  wife. 
Elizabeth  Breeze,  was  the  granddaughter  of  Samuel  Finley,  the  fifth  President  of  Princeton 
College.  His  uncle,  S.  E.  Morse  (Yale,  1811),  and  his  father  were  the  founders  of  the  New 
York  "Observer,"  established  in  1823,  the  oldest  Christian  weekly  newspaper  published  in  the 
United  States.    His  uncle,  S.  F.  B.  Morse,  was  the  inventor  of  the  electric  magnetic  telegraph. 


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Upon  graduation  was  in  the  book  business  from  August  12th,  1867.  to  January  28th,  1868. 
being  in  the  employ  of  S.  C.  Griggs  &  Co..  Chicago.  111.  During  the  Winter  and  Spring  of 
1868  he  taught  privately,  and  fitted  students  for  college.  On  July  26,  1868.  he  returned  to  New 
York  and  entered  the  New  York  University  Law  Department,  graduating  in  May,  1870,  and 
receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  From  September,  1868,  till  May,  1870,  was  clerk  in  the  law 
office  of  Man  &  Parsons.  He  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  1869.  From  1870  to  1874 
he  practiced  Law  in  New  York  City,  and  during  that  period  he  devoted  much  of  his  time  to 
the  study  of  stenography. 

In  September,  1875,  he  was  stricken  down  with  a  severe  attack  of  malarial  fever,  which 
forced  him  to  give  up  all  active  work  for  six  months.  In  September,  1876,  he  started  out  as 
a  stenographer  and  law  reporter  at  No.  175  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

He  reported  the  evidence  in  a  suit  brought  against  the  city  for  damages  in  the  case  of 
Hand  vs.  the  Manhattan  Elevated  R.  R.  Co.,  where  the  plaintiff  had  lost  his  life.  This  was  the 
first  death  caused  by  the  Elevated  Railroad.  The  jury  brought  in  a  verdict  of  $5,000.  He 
also  took  the  evidence  in  a  suit  against  the  city  for  damages  arising  from  the  death  of  a  Ger- 
man peddler,  who  was  the  first  victim  of  the  electric  wire.  He  took  the  testimony  of  the 
Library  Experts  in  1896.  who  were  called  to  give  their  views  of  how  the  Congressional  Librarj- 
should  be  governed. 

Remained  at  175  Broadway  until  ^lay,  1879,  when  he  removed  to  No.  140  Nassau  street. 
New  York  City. 

In  February,  1880,  he  was  offered  and  accepted  the  position  of  Private  Secretary  to  the 
Treasurer  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  Company.  Remained  there  until  November, 
1881,  when  he  returned  to  140  Nassau  street  and  took  up  law  reporting.  In  May,  1897, 
through  the  efforts  of  his  classmate.  Senator  Geo.  P.  Wetmore,  he  obtained  a  position  in  the 
Congressional  Library  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

Was  married  September  24,  1879,  to  Louise  Parish  Townsend,  of  Greenport,  L.  I. 


Mabel  Townsend,  born  November  15th,  1880,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  died  December  13th,  1880, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Marie  Louise  Townsend,  born  June  27th,  1883,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Gertrude  Townsend,  bom  November  nth,  1887,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Marie  Louise  Townsend  attends  Miss  A.  P.  Townsend's  (her  aunt's)  school  in  Newark, 
N.  J.,  preparing  for  College.     Gertrude  is  with  her  parents  in  Washington. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS.    RANK. 

Brothers,  "Sigma  Eps."  Phi  Theta  Psi,  Zeta  Psi.  Honorary  Wolf's  Head  1892. 


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ALFRED  EUGENE  NOLEN. 

Alfred  Eugene  Nolen,  son  of  George  Bolten  and  Olive  (Grossman)  Nolen,  was  born 
at  Leicester,  Mass.,  December  25th,   1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  Andover,  Mass.,  under  Dr.  S.  H.  Taylor,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

His  ancestors  came  over  to  this  country  in  1750. 

After  graduation  was  instructor  in  the  classics  and  higher  mathematics  in  a  school  at  Nor- 
wich, Vt.,  until  March,  1868.  Spent  the  next  year  in  reading,  study  and  travel.  In  1869  took  an 
advanced  course  at  Yale  during  the  Winter.  In  September,  1869,  became  the  principal  of  the 
High  School  at  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  continuing  there  for  three  years,  when  he  went  to  New 
Haven.  Conn.,  to  take  a  course  in  linguistics,  under  the  direction  of  the  Yale  Faculty.  He  left 
New  Haven  in  September,  1873,  and  spent  the  next  two  years  in  Washington,  D.  C,  engaged 
in  study,  and  during  part  of  the  time  giving  private  instruction.     In  June,   1875,  his  health 


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broke  down  completely  and  he  was  obliged  to  go  North.  Upon  the  re-establishment  of  his 
health  he  resumed  teaching,  and  in  September,  1876,  he  became  Principal  of  the  High  School 
at  Winchendon,  Mass.  In  September,  1877,  he  went  to  Brookfield,  Mass.,  and  took  charge  of 
the  High  School  there.  Resigned  in  June,  1879,  and  was  engaged  for  the  next  two  years  in 
West  Brookfield,  Mass.,  as  private  instructor  in  Greek  and  Latin.  In  September,  1881,  he  be- 
came the  classical  instructor  in  the  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  High  School,  which  is  his  address. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  Oration,  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 


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*  LOUIS  LAMBERT  PALMER. 

*  Louis  Lambert  Palmer,  son  of  Captain  Alexander  S.  and  Priscilla  (Dixon)  Palmer, 
of  Stonington,  Conn.,  was  born  at  Westerly,  R.  L,  July  21,  1845.     Died  the  31st  of  May,  1887. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  the  Berkshire  Family  School  at  Stockbridge,  Mass., 
under  Reid  and  Hoffman,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

In  1868  he  entered  the  College  University  Law  School,  and,  after  graduating  as  valedic- 
torian, he  commenced  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Chicago.  For  fifteen  years  he  was  at 
first  alone  and  then  successively  in  the  firms  of  Palmer  &  Colt,  Palmer  &  Durkee,  and  Styles, 
Lewis  &  Palmer.  In  1884  he  left  Chicago  and  returned  to  his  home  in  Stonington,  Conn.  He 
was  soon  after  elected  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Legislature  and  served  one  term  (1885-86). 

He  died  suddenly  in  Stonington,  May  31st,  1887.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  mak- 
ing arrangements  to  resume  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  New  York. 


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Palmer  inherited  much  of  the  strength  and  beauty  of  character  of  his  Puritan  forefathers. 
Everj^hing  that  he  did  he  did  well  and  worthily.  While  devoting  in  college  much  time  to 
reading,  athletics  and  good  fellowship,  he  easily  maintained  an  excellent  standing  in  his 
studies. 

He  was  one  of  the  best,  if  not  the  best,  oarsmen  in  our  Class.  As  stroke  of  the  Glyuna 
crew,  which  twice  in  the  Spring  and  Fall  of  1866  rowed  the  harbor  course  in  the  fastest  time 
on  record,  he  distinguished  himself  by  his  skill  and  nerve  and  courage.  His  quiet  and  unas- 
suming manner,  his  quick  perception  and  intelligence,  his  energy  and  manliness,  and  his  ever- 
cheerful,  affectionate  and  generous  disposition,  inspired  not  only  the  respect  but  the  love  of  his 
classmates.  They  were  his  friends  throughout  his  life.  As  a  lawyer  he  was  careful,  conscien- 
tious, painstaking  and  able.  Among  those  who  helped  to  lay  him  in  his  grave  in  that  quaint  old 
town  by  the  sea  was  a  classmate  whom  he  loved,  one  who,  on  looking  back  through  more  than 
twenty  years  of  close  friendship,  could  recall  no  unkind  word  of  his  and  no  mean  action  and 
no  truer  friend.  Who  knew  him  least  knew  no  wrong  in  him.  Who  knew  him  best  loved  hmi 
best.  Indeed,  he  had  no  enemy  among  us.  His  ringing  laugh,  however,  we  shall  never  hear 
again ;  his  quick  and  friendly  glance  will  never  gladden  us,  but  his  manly  bearing  and  his  gentle 
heart  will  ever  be  remembered.  At  our  last  reunion,  to  many  an  eye  the  lights  burned  dim 
as  the  memory  of  our  brave,  gentle,  true-hearted  Lam.  Palmer  was  recalled  by  the  beautiful 
toast  to  our  dead. 

"But  O,  for  the  touch  of  a  vanish'd  hand, 
And  the  sound  of  a  voice  that  is  still." 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Beta  Chi.  D.  K.  E.  and  Scroll  and  Key. 


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*JOHN    WARREN    PARTRIDGE. 

♦John  Warren  Partridge,  son  of  Warren  Partridge,  M.  D.  (Brown  University,  1824), 
and  Amoretta  (Potter)  Partridge,  was  born  at  Princeton,  Mass.,  September  24th,  1844.  Died 
February  25th,  1889,  at  Fort  Collins,  Colo. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  the  Worcester  High  School  under  Harris  B.  Greene,  and 
entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

His  father  was  a  physician,  who  lived  successively  in  Fitzwilliam,  Holden  and  Princeton, 
Mass. 

His  widowed  mother  resided  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  while  he  was  preparing  for  College, 
and  removed  with  him  to  New  Haven  during  his  College  course. 

He  studied  Theology  for  one  year  in  Princeton,  N.  J.,  and  for  the  next  two  years  in 
Andover,  Mass.  On  February  7th,  1871,  he  was  ordained  as  pastor  of  the  Davenport  Con- 
gregational Church  in  New  Haven,  where  he  remained  until  he  accepted  a  call,  in  the  Fall  of 


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1874,  to  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  in  Scranton,  Pa.  His  work  there  was  interrupted 
seriously  by  the  state  of  his  health,  and  in  1876  he  resigned,  to  seek  a  more  favorable  climate. 
He  was  first  stationed  at  San  Diego,  Cal.,  and  then  for  two  years  (1877-79)  had  charge  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Greeley,  Colo.  From  the  Fall  of  1879  to  May,  1885.  he  supplied 
the  pulpit  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Canon  City,  Colo.  He  then  ventured  to  try  the 
climate  of  the  East  again,  and  preached  the  follow-ing  Winter  in  Scranton,  Pa.,  but  his  old 
lung  trouble  returned  in  the  Spring  of  1886,  and  he  accepted  in  May  an  invitation  to  the 
pastorate  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Fort  Collins,  Colo.,  where  he  died  of  pneumonia, 
February  25th.  1889,  in  his  forty-sixth  year. 

Among  the  floral  tributes  that  were  laid  on  his  casket  was  a  handsome  anchor,  with  the 
word  "Yale"  in  the  centre,  from  the  Yale  Association  of  Colorado,  of  which  the  deceased 
was  President  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Mr.  Partridge  was  a  strong  Mason,  and  having  expressed  a  desire,  before  his  death,  that 
he  be  buried  according  to  the  rites  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  his  wishes  were  carried  out. 
An  escort  of  between  sixty  and  seventy  persons  accompanied  the  remains  to  Greeley,  Colo., 
where  they  were  met  by  a  large  gathering  of  citizens  and  members  of  the  Masonic  fraternity, 
including  twenty  Knights.  His  remains  were  laid  to  rest  in  Linn  Grove  Cemetery,  where  the 
interment  took  place  according  to  the  solemn  and  deeply  impressive  rites  of  Masonry. 

He  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Mary  E.  Partridge,  of  Worcester,  Mass., 
whom  he  married  July  14th,  1871. 

CHILDREN. 

Edith  Davenport,  born  November  6th,  187 1.  New  Haven,  Conn. 
C       John  Willard,  born  May  31st,   1873,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  died  May  6th,   1875,  Greeley, 
'CoIq. 

Leonard  E.,  born  September  i6th.  1876,  Greeley,  Colo.;  died  June  i6th,  1879,  Greeley, 
Colo. 

His  wife  died  July  19th,  1879,  at  Canon  City,  Colo. 

His  second  wife  was  Nellie  Barnard,  of  Scranton,  Pa.,  whom  he  married  September  15th, 
1883. 

CHILDREN. 

Mary  Barnard,  bom  August  6th,  1884,  Fort  Collins.  Colo. 
Ralph  Llewellyn,  born  October  30th,  1886.  Fort  Collins,  Colo. 

Edith  finished  her  education  at  La  Salle  Seminary,  Chicago,  111.,  in  1893,  and  was  married 
March  21st,  1895,  to  Harlon  Thomas  at  Fort  Collins,  Colo. 

Ralph  and  Mary  are  studying  at  home,  the  former  preparing  for  Yale. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Delta  Beta  Chi,  D.  K.  E.  and  Spade  and  Grave:  ist  prize  Senior 
year  Linonia  Prize  Debate,  3rd  prize  Declamation  third  term  Sophomore.  Oration,  Phi  Beta 
Kappa. 

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*HENRY     WILLSON     PAYNE. 


*Hf.nry  Willson  Payne,  son  of  Hon.  Henry  B.  Payne  and  Mary  (Perry)  Payne,  was 
born  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  March  7th,  1845.     Died  at  Mentone,  France,  February  8th,  1878. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  the  Cleveland  Central  High  School  under  Dr.  Theodore 
Sterling,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

His  mother  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Commodore  Perry. 

Mr.  Payne  graduated  from  the  Columbia  Law  School  in  May,  1870,  and  practiced  Law 
for  a  short  time  at  his  home  in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  His  health  was  very  poor,  and  in  January, 
1877,  he  sailed  for  Europe.  The  Secretary  received  a  letter  from  him  on  the  17th  of  Sep- 
tember, 1877,  informing  him  that  owing  to  his  continued  ill-health  he  would  pass  the  following 
Winter  at  Mentone,  in  the  South  of  France.  He  was  at  that  place  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  February  of  the  following  year. 


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In  April  of  the  same  year  George  Adee  called  and  spoke  of  the  propriety  of  expressing  to 
the  family  of  our  Classmate  the  sense  of  loss  the  Class  had  sustained  in  his  death,  and  to 
tender  to  the  family  the  sympathy  of  the  Class.  It  was  thought  advisable  to  appoint  a  com- 
mittee, which  was  done.  That  committee  consisted  of  Adee,  Elliot,  Greenwood  Lamb,  G. 
P.  Sheldon  and  Wetmore. 

The  following  letter  was  drawn  up  by  the  committee,  and  was  endorsed  with  a  note  from 
the  Secretary  and  sent  to  the  family  of  Mr.  Payne,  October  14th,  1878: 

New  York,  September  20th,  1878. 
To  Hon.  Henry  B.  Payne: 

At  the  earnest  solicitation  of  the  members  of  the  Class  of  1867,  at  Yale,  we  have  been 
requested  to  ask,  in  their  name,  the  sad  privilege  of  sympathizing  with  you  in  your  great 
bereavement.  We  hardly  hope  to  comfort  you  in  any  degree,  for  we  know  how  weak  are 
human  words  in  the  silence  which  follows  the  Voice  of  God,  but  we  cannot  refrain.  Harry 
Payne  was  more  than  a  Classmate;  he  was  a  friend  to  each  and  every  one  of  us.  By  his 
great  simplicity  of  character,  the  unspotted  integrity  of  his  life,  his  charity,  gentleness,  gener- 
ous and  abiding  sympathies,  he  won  our  hearts. 

His  influence  was  ever  pure  and  clean  and  healthful. 

Although  some  of  our  members  may  have  been  intellectually  his  superior,  yet  we  all  re- 
garded him  as  one  of  our  few  representative  men,  in  that  he  possessed  in  a  remarkable  degree 
that  adjustment  and  balance  of  qualities  which  give  assurance  of  growth  and  prominence. 
He  inspired  no  jealousy.     His  success  would  be  our  success;  his  life  our  monument. 

We  prophesied  for  him  a  long  and  useful  career.  We  believed  our  country  had  need  of 
strong,  earnest  and  pure  characters,  to  keep  alive  her  institutions  and  bring  back  the  sim- 
plicity of  earlier  times,  and  in  him  we  expected  a  worker  to  that  end.  And  yet  God  has  been 
with  us.  and  him,  for  whom  and  in  whom  we  hoped.  He  has  taken  away. 

All  is  well  with  him.  Rest  and  fulfillment  have  come.  But  we  must  mourn.  He  was 
with  us  in  our  days  of  hope  and  courage ;  he  looked  with  us  from  the  windows  of  youth  and 
promise  upon  the  wide,  untried,  restless  world  beyond,  and  his  words  were  kind  and  gentle 
and  encouraging. 

As  the  years  went  by  he  did  not  forget  us.  In  health  and  sickness  the  old  Class  was  dear 
to  him.  and  its  memories  sacred.  Those  of  us  that  were  present  at  our  Decennial  will  never 
forget  the  greeting  that  he  sent  from  beyond  the  sea.  Death  was  with  him  then,  yet  in  a  letter 
full  of  kindly  thought  and  pleasing  remembrances  he  invoked  the  spirit  of  the  past  and  we 
were  boys  again.  There  was  that  about  his  letter  which  made  his  presence  seem  real.  h 
recalled  vividly  his  genial  smile  and  winning  diffidence  of  manner.  It  closed  with  the  senti- 
ment :  "Here's  health  and  good  cheer  to  all."  And  that  kindly  message  will  never  be  for- 
gotten. At  all  our  reunions  hereafter  his  name  will  unlock  and  free  all  the  pleasant  recol- 
lections of  our  College  life,  and  of  us  and  with  us  he  will  ever  be. 

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Trusting  that  our  past  relations  with  Harry  will  permit  us  to  be  in  a  measure  sharers  of 
your  grief,  and  that  you  will  not  consider  us  as  wholly  strangers. 

Yours  Sincerely, 
Chas.  Elliot,  G.  P.  Sheldon, 

Albert  E.  Lamb,  Geo.  Adee, 

Thomas  Greenwood,  Committee  Class  '67. 

Geo.  p.  Wetmore,  W.  H.  Morse, 

Class  Sec'y. 

The  following  notice  of  his  death  appeared  in  the  Cleveland  "Sunday  Leader"  of  Feb- 
ruary loth,  1878: 

"  Henry  W.  Payne,  youngest  son  of  Hon.  H.  B.  Payne,  and  widely  known  in  this  com- 
munity by  the  familiar  name  of  "Harry,"  died  on  Friday  evening  at  Mentone,  in  the  South 
of  France.  The  painful  intelligence,  transmitted  by  telegraph  on  the  night  of  his  death,  was 
unexpected  even  by  his  family,  and  has  produced  a  profound  and  widespread  feeling  of  sor- 
row. The  deceased  went  abroad  something  more  than  a  year  ago,  and  had  experienced  such 
favorable  effects  from  a  genial  climate  and  careful  treatment,  that  confident  hopes  were  enter- 
tained that  he  might  return  completely  restored  to  health.  All  these  anticipations  have  been 
rudely  blasted  by  the  news  of  his  sudden  death,  and  his  bereaved  family  will  receive  the 
earnest  sympathy  of  a  wide  circle  of  friends,  who  feel  in  this  sudden  news  a  keen  sense  of 
personal  loss. 

"  Henry  Payne  was  born  in  this  city  in  1845.  He  graduated  at  Yale  in  the  Class  of  ^^T, 
and  subsequently  graduated  from  the  Columbia  Law  School  in  New  York  City  in  1870.  He 
had  meanwhile  studied  Law  in  the  office  of  George  Willey,  Esq.,  and  soon  after  gradua- 
tion from  Columbia  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the  Bar  of  Cleveland.  He  was  a 
young  man  of  fine  personal  qualities.  Manly,  generous  and  hospitable,  he  was  a  true  friend 
and  liberal  benefactor.  One  of  the  last  letters  he  ever  wrote  was  to  his  brother  directing  that 
his  agent  should  return  the  rents  collected  of  various  tenants,  and  place  a  liberal  sum  in  the 
hands  of  a  friend  to  be  distributed  among  the  poor  emigrants  who  passed  through  the  city. 

"  He  died  in  a  distant  land  among  strangers,  but  attended  in  his  last  moments  by  his 
brother  Nathan,  who  has  been  his  associate  during  most  of  his  recent  journeyings  abroad. 
He  leaves  behind  the  record  of  an  honorable  and  unsullied  life,  to  which  no  word  of  ours  can 
add  aught  of  endearment  or  respect." 

college  societies,  honors,  rank. 
Brothers,  Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Beta  Chi,  D.  K.  E.  and  Spade  and  Grave. 


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WILLIAM    ADORNO    PECK. 

William  Adorno  Peck,  son  of  Eleazer  Adorno  and  Lucy  Elizabelih  (AVildman)  Peck, 
was  born  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  November  20th,  1844. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  the  Troy  Institute,  New  York,  under  W.  H.  Martin,  and 
entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

His  father's  name  was  Eleazar  Adorno  Peck.  He  was  not  a  College  man.  Had  to  work 
his  way  up  from  the  time  he  was  thirteen  years  old.  For  the  last  38  years  of  his  life  he  was 
pre-eminently  an  Insurance  man.  He  took  a  local  agency  for  the  Connecticut  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  in  the  later  40's  about  '48  or  '49.  For  several  years  he  included  Fire  Insurance  in 
his  business,  but  about  1859  he  gave  up  all  but  the  Life  Insurance,  and  took  the  general  agency 
of  the  above  named  company  for  New  York  State  outside  of  New  York  City  and  Long  Island. 
That  was  his  business  till  his  death  in  1887. 

His  father  was  a  lineal  descendant  from  William  Peck,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  New 
Haven  Colony,  and  was  also  connected  with  the  Hamilton  family. 


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His  mother  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  Boughton  or  Bouton  family,  one  of  the  old 
families  of  France,  with  genealogy,  I  am  told,  running  back  to  the  5th  Century. 

After  graduating  he  studied  through  the  Summer  of  1867,  and  entered  Division  B  of  the 
Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  in  September,  1867,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  June,  1869,  with  the  degree  of  Civil  Engineer. 

About  July  15th,  1869,  he  began  work  as  a  draughtsman  on  the  Morrisania  Town  Survey 
(later  called  North  New  York),  which  included  the  suburbs  along  the  Harlem  River,  and  for 
two  or  three  miles  north.  He  was  obliged  to  leave  the  last  week  in  August  of  that  same  year 
on  account  of  illness.  During  the  remainder  of  1869  and  the  following  years  till  1872  he  was 
unable  to  do  much  hard  work,  but  employed  the  time,  partly  as  assistant  to  the  Professor  of 
Geodesy  in  the  Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute,  in  helping  look  after  the  instruction  of 
students  in  the  field  work,  and  as  he  became  stronger,  in  working  at  his  profession  as  Civil 
Engineer. 

Having  the  opportunity  offered,  he  spent  the  greater  part  of  1872  in  traveling,  leaving  New 
York.  May  15th,  and  returning  December  23rd.  He  traveled  through  several  of  the  European 
countries,  and  went  as  far  East  as  Damascus  in  Syria,  then  into  Palestine  and  down  to  Egypt. 

The  last  week  in  July,  1873,  he  went  to  Port  Kent,  N.  Y.,  and  entered  the  Engineering 
party  of  the  New  York  and  Canada  R.  R.,  remaining  until  December  ist,  when  work  was 
stopped  for  the  Winter.  In  June,  1874,  he  again  went  to  Port  Kent,  but  was  soon  transferred 
to  Port  Kendall,  eight  miles  south,  where  he  remained  on  the  work  till  it  was  completed, 
November  30th,  1875,  when  trains  commenced  running.  He  returned  to  Troy,  N.  Y.,  and 
spent  most  of  1876  working  at  his  profession,  and  laid  out  the  greater  part  of  the  Camp 
Grounds  at  Round  Lake,  N.  Y.,  in  that  year.  The  Winter  of  1876-77  he  spent  in  New  York 
City,  taking  a  special  course  in  Assaying  in  the  Columbia  School  of  Mines. 

The  first  week  in  May,  1877,  he  started  West,  arriving  in  Denver,  Colo.,  the  15th  of  that 
month.  He  immediately  went  to  Idaho  Springs,  about  40  miles  west  of  Denver,  in  the  moun- 
tains, and  took  charge  of  the  Specie  Payment  Stamp  Mill. 

In  September.  1879,  he  started  East  on  a  vacation.  On  his  return  in  December  he  found 
the  mill  closed,  all  work  stopped,  and  himself  out  of  a  job.  He  remained  near  the  mill  till 
the  last  week  of  January,  1880,  looking  after  the  interest  of  some  of  the  Eastern  stockholders. 
He  then  went  to  Georgetown.  Colo.,  and  worked  with  Frank  R.  Carpenter,  a  U.  S.  Deputy 
Mineral  Surveyor.  He  remained  with  him  till  March  30th,  1880.  when  he  came  to  Denver, 
and  entered  the  Surveyor  General's  office  and  remained  in  the  office  till  February  ist,  1886 
A  new  administration  had  come  in,  and  his  place  was  wanted  for  a  relation  of  the  new  Sur- 
veyor General  and  he  was  left  out.  His  little  boy  at  that  time  was  sick  with  scarlet  fever,  and 
he  found  nothing  to  do  till  the  boy  had  recovered.  The  month  of  May,  1886,  he  was  with  the 
Engineering  party  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  stationed  at  Laramie,  Wyo. 

The  first  week  of  July,  1886.  he  started  with  an  Engineering  party  into  the  mountains  for 
surveying  and  locating  a  line  of  railroad  to  the  coal  and  marble  regions  of  Pitkin  County. 
He  was  in  the  Crystal  River  Valley,  and  remained  until  December  ist,  1886.    He  returned  to 

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Denver,  and  worked  on  the  maps  of  the  line  surveyed  (the  Colorado  and  Utah  R.  R.)  until 
the  middle  of  January,  1887. 

From  then  until  the  last  of  March,  1887,  he  worked  at  odd  jobs  that  he  could  find  in  his 
profession.  The  last  of  March,  1887,  he  was  called  East  by  the  death  of  his  father,  and  re 
mained  in  Troy,  N.  Y.,  most  of  the  time  until  the  first  week  in  July  of  that  year.  During 
May  and  June  he  worked  with  W.  &  L.  E.  Gurley,  Instrument  Makers,  experimenting  on 
Electroplating  brass  with  silver.  After  returning  to  Denver  he  entered  the  Chief  Engineer's 
office  of  the  Denver  and  Rio  Grande  R.  R.  in  Denver,  where  he  remained  until  August,  1889. 
During  the  Fall  of  1889  he  worked  with  the  Town  Engineer  of  Highlands,  the  largest  suburb 
of  Denver.  January  ist,  1890,  he  opened  an  office  of  his  own  as  Civil  Engineer  and  Surveyor, 
and  has  followed  it  with  varying  success  since  then.  In  November,  1895,  he  was  elected 
County  Surveyor  of  Arapahoe  County,  Colorado,  and  filled  out  the  term  until  January  12th. 
1898. 

In  February,  1896,  he  obtained  a  Commission  as  a  U.  S.  Deputy  Mineral  Surveyor,  and 
has  been  working  on  Surveys  for  Mineral  Patents  in  connection  with  his  other  work. 

Was  married  to  Mary  F.  Holme,  at  Denver,  Colo.,  November  i6th,  1882. 

CHILDREN. 

Henry  Holme,  born  April  23rd,  1884;  died  February  2nd,  1890. 
Wm.  Adorno,  Jr.,  born  August  5th,  1887. 
Mildred  Armstrong,  born  June  i8th,   1889. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES^    H0N0R.S,    RANK. 

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GEORGE    HENRY    PERKINS. 

George  Henry  Perkins,  son  of  Frederick  Trenck  Perkins  (Yale,  '39)  and  Harriet  (Olm- 
sted) Perkins,  was  born  at  East  Cambridge,  Mass..  September  25th,  1844. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  in  Mr.  Lovell's  School,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  in  Knox 
Academy.  Galesburg,  Ills.,  and  entered  '67  Yale  the  beginning  of  Junior  year. 

On  his  father's  side  his  ancestors  are  quite  widely  distributed  over  this  country,  the 
American  branch  coming  from  John  Perkins,  who  came  to  the  Bay  Colony  with  Roger 
Williams  in  1630,  and  held  minor  public  offices  in  Boston  and  Ipswich.  His  immediate 
descendants  were  all  prominent  in  the  offices  of  the  Colony,  and  were  engaged  in  the  Colonial 
wars,  especially  that  of  the  Revolution.  A  considerable  branch  of  the  family  still  resides  in 
England. 

On  his  mother's  side  the  Olmsted  family  is  well  known  as  prominent  in  the  history  of 
Connecticut.     Her  grandfather,  Nathaniel  O.,  was  for  many  years  in  business  in  New  Haven, 


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and  his  only  brother,  Dennison  O.,  was  long  Professor  of  Natural  Philosophy  at  Yale,  being 
the  immediate  predecessor  of  Prof.  Loomis. 

Entered  the  Class  at  the  beginning  of  the  Junior  year.  Passed  Freshman  and  Sophomore 
years  at  Knox  College,  Galesburg,  Ills.  After  graduation  spent  two  years  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School. 

Received  the  degree  of  Ph.  D.  at  Yale  in  1869;  received  three  appointments  to  a  profes- 
sorship: one  from  the  University  of  Vermont,  one  from  Hanover  College,  Ind.,  and  one 
from  the  College  at  Glasgow,  Mo.  Accepted  the  first  offer,  and  is  now  Professor  of  Geology, 
Zoology  and  Botany  in  the  above  named  institution.  Has  written  quite  a  number  of  scientific 
articles  in  various  papers  and  scientific  periodicals,  which  have  been  well  received.  Was  ap- 
pointed Professor  of  Biology  in  October,  1869.  In  November,  1876,  was  appointed  State  En- 
tomologist, and  in  June,  1881,  was  appointed  Howard  Professor  of  Natural  History. 

Akhough  he  has  not  crossed  the  ocean  he  has  traveled  extensively  in  this  country,  espe- 
cially in  the  Rockies  and  California. 

Was  married  to  Mary  Farnham  at  Galesburg,  Ills.,  August  loth,  1870. 

CHILDREN. 

Harriet  Olmsted,  born  October  3rd,  1871,  Burlington,  Vt. ;  died  December  6th,  1876, 
Burlington,  Vt. 

Henry  Farnham,  born  May  loth,  1877,  Burlington.  Vt. 

His  son  was  fitted  for  College  at  Burlington,  Vt.,  and  entered  the  College  there,  where 
he  graduated  in  the  Class  of  1898. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    R.\NK. 

Brothers,  Clark  and  Berkeley  Classical  Scholarships  Senior  year.  High  Oration,  Phi 
Beta  Kappa. 


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PETER  BYRNBERG  PORTER. 

Peter  Byrnbekg  Porter,  son  of  Peter  Byrnberg  and  Elizabeth  Deacon  (Aldrich)  Porter, 
was  born  at  Wilmington,  Del.,  January  17th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  the  Delaware  Military  Academy,  Wilmington,  Del.,  and 
also  under  private  tutors  in  Wilmington  and  Philadelphia. 

His  father  was  a  publisher  and  bookseller  at  Wilmington,  Del.,  the  business  having 
descended  from  his  father,  Robert,  who  in  turn  received  it  from  his  father-in-law,  Peter 
Byrnberg.  The  latter  published  quite  a  number  of  small  works  towards  the  close  of  the 
i8th  Century.     He  is  of  old  Swedish-English  stock  on  both  his  father  and  mother's  side. 

On  the  paternal  side,  the  Byrnbergs  were  among  the  original  settlers  in  Delaware,  who 
came  from  Sweden  in  1638.  His  grandfather,  Robert  Porter,  who  married  Ann  Byrnberg,  was 
of  English  extraction,  the  Porters  having  come  from  England  to  Connecticut  and  moved  thence 
to   Delaware.     His  mother's   family   name   was   Aldrich.     The   Aldrichs   were   Swedes,   who 


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settled  in  Delaware  at  an  early  period.  One  of  them,  Jacob,  was  the  Governor  of  the  Dutch 
Colonies  on  the  Delaware,  at  the  time  Peter  Stuyvesant  was  Governor  of  New  York,  or 
the  New  Netherlands,  as  it  was  called  (1655-64). 

The  Aldrichs  married  with  the  Deacons,  also  of  English  family,  who  settled  in  New 
Jersey,  and  with  the  Canbys,  whose  ancestor,  Benjamin  Canby,  came  from  Thome,  Yorkshire, 
England,  in  1633. 

Entered  the  Class  at  the  commencement  of  Sophomore  year.  After  graduation  attendetl 
the  Medical  lectures  at  the  Universitj'^  of  Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia,  where  he  graduated  in 
March,  1869.  He  then  became  one  of  the  Resident  Physicians  of  the  Philadelphia  Hospital, 
his  term  expiring  January  ist,  1S71.  He  then  continued  to  practice  for  a  short  time  in  Philadel- 
phia, after  which  he  removed  to  New  York  City,  where  he  has  been  practicing  ever  since. 

Has  been  attending  physician  to  the  De  Milt  and  North  Eastern  Dispensary  and  the  New 
York  Free  Dispensary  for  sick  children. 

In  the  year  1879  he  commenced  practicing  during  the  Summer  months  at  Southampton, 
L.  I.,  returning  each  Fall  to  New  York  City.  In  February,  1885,  he  became  editor  of  "Gail- 
lard's  Medical  Journal,"  a  large  and  important  medical  magazine  published  monthly  in  New 
York,  which  is  now  in  its  44th  volume,  and  has  a  large  circulation  in  the  South  and  West  as 
well  as  in  New  York. 

Since  January,  1885,  has  been  Recording  Secretary  of  the  New  York  County  Medical 
Association,  and  New  York  Editor  of  the  "Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal." 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Delta  Beta  Chi,  D.  K.  E.  and  Spade  and  Grave.  Honorary  Wolfs 
Head  1892.    Dissertation.     Phi  Beta  Kappa. 


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*EDWARD    SHELDON    REYNOLDS. 

*Ed\vard  Sheldon  Reynolds,  son  of  Judge  William  Champion  and  Jane  Holberton 
(Smith)  Reynolds,  was  born  at  Kingston,  Pa.,  February  22nd,  1844;  died  February  8th,  1895, 
at  the  age  of  50  years. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Dr.  Jas.  M.  Whiton  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School, 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summ.er  of  1863. 

His  father  was  prepared  for  the  Sophomore  Class  of  Princeton  College,  but  owing  to  ill- 
ness was  prevented  from  entering,  and  became  a  merchant  prominent  in  the  business  circles 
of  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.  On  his  father's  side  he  is  descended  from  Edward  Fuller,  of  the  May- 
flower, and  on  his  mother's  side  from  the  Barrs,  Fayerweathers  and  Holbertons,  of  New 
England. 

Upon  graduation  read  Law  and  traveled  extensively  for  his  health  in  Europe. 


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He  maintained  varied  interests  in  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  where  he  resided,  after  graduation. 
In  1887  was  elected  President  of  Wilkesbarre  Electric  Light  Co.  and  soon  after  President  of 
Wilkesbarre  Water  Co.  In  1891  was  made  President  of  the  Wyoming  National  Bank,  in 
which  institution  he  had  been  a  director  since  1884.  These  offices  he  held  at  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  also  was  for  a  number  of  years  prior  to  his  death  President  of  the  Wyoming  His- 
torical Society. 

He  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  his  native  city,  but,  although  he  had  an 
admirable  equipment  for  success  in  his  profession,  not  being  obliged  to  depend  upon  it  for  an 
income,  he  preferred  to  devote  his  time  to  general  business  and  literary  and  scientific  pursuits. 
He  had  rare  business  qualifications,  and  possessed  the  absolute  confidence  of  the  community 
in  which  he  lived.  He  took  a  deep  interest  in  historical  matters,  and  a  special  pvide  in  the 
Wyoming  Historical  and  Geological  Society,  to  the  published  volumes  of  which  he  contributed. 
He  was  the  President  of  the  Society  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics 
and  had  served  usefully  on  local  committees,  but  declined  nomination  for  mere  public  posi- 
tions. He  had  been  in  poor  health  for  four  or  five  years  before  his  death,  and  his  last  illness 
from  pulmonary  trouble  dated  from  the  Spring  of  1894.  He  died  at  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y.,  on 
February  8th,  1895,  at  the  age  of  50. 

He  was  modest  in  his  charities,  retiring  in  his  disposition.  Many  men  cultivate  a  wider 
circle  of  friends,  but  few  can  lay  claim  to  such  absolute  affection  and  devotion  on  the  part  of 
intimates. 

He  was,  in  all  affairs  with  which  he  was  connected,  looked  up  to  as  a  man  of  sound 
judgment,  clear  intuition  and  remarkable  executive  ability — honored  by  the  community,  re- 
spected by  all  who  knew  him.  a  great  favorite  among  his  intimate  friends.  The  people  lose  by 
his  death  a  worthy  citizen  and  an  honored  member  of  society. 

He  was  married  at  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  November  23rd,  1875,  to  .A.nnie  B.  Dorrance. 

CHILDREN. 

Dorrance,  born  September  9th,  1877.  Wilkesbarre,  Pa. 

Dorrance  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Hotchkiss  School,  Lakeville,  Conn.,  and  entered  Yale  in 
the  Class  of  1901. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Beta  Chi,  D.  K.  E.  and  Scroll  and  Key.  Second  Colloquy. 
Spoonman. 


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*ERNEST     ROBINSON. 

*Ernest  Robinson,  son  of  Charles  Robin-on  (Yale,  1821)  and  Nancy  (Mulford)  Robin- 
son, was  born  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  December  20th,  1845.  Died  there,  Friday,  November 
i8th,  1870,  of  inflammatory  rheumatism  in  the  region  of  the  heart  and  chest,  after  an  illness 
of  about  three  weeks,  and  was  buried  the  following  Monday  in  the  old  cemetery  in  the  same 
city. 

During  the  last  three  years  Robinson  had  been  engaged  in  studying  medicine,  though 
just  previous  to  his  death  he  was  in  the  insurance  business.  His  health  had  been  gradually 
failing,  but  though  he  freely  confessed  that  he  was  not  well,  he  never  seemed  dispirited.  At 
our  Triennial  meeting,  his  laugh  was  as  merry  and  his  greeting  as  cordial  as  any  of  the  others. 
I  had  met  him  frequently  of  late,  as  he  walked  along  the  street  with  difficulty  and  pain,  and 
yet  his  countenance  would  invariably  bear  its  familiar  pleasant  smile.     He  remembered  the  old 


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College  days  with  delight,  and  would  often  inquire  of  me  concerning  the  welfare  of  one  and 
another  of  the  Class. 

He  was  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  ability  and  attractiveness.  During  his  College 
course  he  won  the  respect  and  friendship  of  his  classmates,  who  will  hear  of  his  death  with 
sadness,  and  will  continue  to  hold  him  in  affectionate  remembrance.  (C.  S.  E.,  in  Triennial 
Record.) 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES^    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Phi  Theta  Psi,  Psi  Upsilon. 


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HORATIO    SEYMOUR. 

Horatio  Seymour,  son  of  John  Forman  Seymour  (Yale,  1835)  and  Frances  Antill  (Tap- 
pan)  Seymour,  was  born  at  Utica,  N.  Y.,  January  8th,  1844. 

He  fitted  for  College  under  George  C.  Sawyer  at  the  Utica  Academy,  New  York,  and 
entered  the  Class  of  '66  in  the  Fall  of  '62.  He  was  in  this  class  Freshman  and  Sophomore 
years,  and  joined  the  Class  of  '67  first  term  Junior  year. 

His  father's  name  was  John  Forman  Seymour.  He  graduated  from  Yale  College  with 
Class  of  1835.  He  studied  Law  at  Litchfield,  Conn.,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  at  Utica, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  practiced  Law  until  1862.  when  he  became  State  Agent  for  the  care  of  the  sick 
and  wounded  .soldiers  of  the  State  of  New  York.  He  held  this  position  until  December,  1864, 
when  he  resigned  and  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession. 

His  mother's  name  was  Frances  Antill  Tappan,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.  She  married  his 
father  in  1839. 


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His  father's  family  were  of  English  extraction,  having  come  to  Connecticut  as  early  as 

1637- 

His  great-grandfather  was  Moses  Seymour,  Major  in  the  Revolutionary  Army.  His 
grandfather,  Henry  Seymour,  moved  to  New  York  State  from  Connecticut  early  in  this  cen- 
tury. He  was  a  Canal  Commissioner  of  the  original  Erie  Canal,  and  built  the  Eastern  sec- 
tion. His  wife,  our  classmate's  grandmother,  Mary  Ledyard  Forman,  was  a  daughter  of 
Lieut.  Col.  Jonathan  Forman,  of  New  Jersey,  who  served  throughout  the  Revolutionary  War. 
Our  classmate's  mother's  (Frances  Antill  Tappan)  father  was  Arthur  Tappan,  son  of  Ben- 
jamin Tappan,  of  Northampton,  Mass.,  and  of  Sarah  Holmes,  his  wife.  Arthur  Tappan  mar- 
ried Frances  Antill,  daughter  of  Lieut.  Col.  Edward  Antill  and  Charlotte  Riverin.  Edward 
Antill  was  Lieutenant  Colonel  in  Hazen's  Regiment,  or  "Congress'  Own."  He  was  educated 
at  King's  (afterwards  Columbia)  College,  and  practiced  law  at  New  York  City  and  Quebec, 
Canada. 

After  his  graduation  he  studied  Law  for  a  few  months  in  his  father's  office  at  Utica,  N. 
Y.,  when  on  account  of  failure  in  health  from  close  confinement  to  office  work  he  became  en- 
gaged in  Civil  Engineering.  He  resided  in  New  York  State,  Pennsylvania  and  various  places 
until  1877.  when  he  was  elected  State  Engineer  and  Surveyor  of  the  State  of  New  York.  He 
was  elected  to  the  same  office  two  years  later,  residing  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  between  1877  and 
1881.  In  1882  he  moved  to  Marquette,  Mich.,  where  he  has  since  resided  as  Managing  Direc- 
tor of  the  Michigan  Land  and  Iron  Company  (Limited). 

He  married  Abigail  Johnson  at  Utica,  N.  Y.,  October  12th,  1880. 

CHILDREN. 

Mary  Ledyard,  born  September  loth,  1881,  Madison,  Wis. 

Horatio,  Jr.,  born  July  14th.  1883,  Marquette,  Mich. 

Mary  Ledyard  is  now  at  Mrs.  Piatt's  School,  Utica,  N.  Y. 

Horatio  is  now  at  the  School  of  Horace  D.  Taft,  Esq.,  Watertown,  Conn. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES^    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia.  Delta  Kappa,   Psi  Upsilon,  and  Skull  and  Bones.     First  Colloquy. 


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GEORGE    PRESTON    SHELDON. 

George  Preston  Sheldon,  son  of  Charles  and  Janet  (Reid)  Sheldon,  was  born  January 
17th,  1847,  in  New  York  City. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  R.  M.  Wright  at  Castleton,  Vt.,  and  entered  the  Class 
of  '67  in  the  .Summer  of  1863. 

After  graduation  studied  Law,  entering  the  office  of  Sewell  &  Pierce.  Was  admitted  as 
a  partner  of  that  firm  on  the  ist  of  July,  1872.  Was  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel  of  the 
City  of  Brooklyn  for  about  four  years.  Practiced  Law  in  New  York  City  till  1888.  In  1881 
ne  removed  from  Brooklyn  to  Westchester  County,  New  York.  In  January,  1888,  accepted 
position  of  Vice-President  of  the  Phoenix  Fire  Insurance  Com.pany,  of  New  York  City,  and 
on  April  15th  of  the  same  year  was  elected  President  of  the  company,  which  position  he  now 
holds. 


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He  married  twice.     His  first  wife  was   Frances  A.   Pendleton,   of  Ann  Arbor,   Mich., 
whom  he  married  July  2nd,  1872.     She  died  September  23rd,  1885,  at  Greenwich,  Conn. 

CHILDREN. 

Hatty  Haskell,  born  April  14th,  1873,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Geo.  P.,  born  November  19th,  1876,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

His  second  wife  was  Carolyn  J.  Pendleton,  whom  he  married  May  21st,  1890. 

CHILDREN. 

Carolyn,  born  May  20th,  1891,  Greenwich,  Conn. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES^    HONORS^    RANK. 

Linonia,  Gamma  Nu,  Alpha  Delta  Phi  and  Scroll  and  Key.     High  Oration.  Spoonman. 


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HENRY    CLAY    SHELDON. 

Henry  Clay  Sheldon,  son  of  Ira  and  Fannie  Maria   (Bingham)    Sheldon,  was  born  at 
Martin^burgh,  N.  Y.,  March  12th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)   under  Wm.  Robt.  Adams  at  the  Lowville  Academy.  Low- 
ville,  N.  Y.,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  on  January  7lh,  1864. 

Entered  the  Class  second  term  Freshman.  After  graduating  spent  the  first  year  at 
Franklin,  N.  Y.,  teaching.  Attended  the  Theological  School  in  Boston  three  years,  1868-71. 
Preached  the  following  year  at  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.,  and  the  next  two  years  at  Brunswick,  Me. 
Spent  fifteen  months  in  Europe,  mainly  in  Germany,  studying  Church  History.  Then  taught 
in  the  Boston  University,  chiefly  in  the  Theological  School.  Was  appointed  to  the  Chair  of 
Historical  Theology  in  the  Boston  University  School  of  Theology  in  1875.  In  1886  he  pub 
Hshed  a  work,  entitled  "The  History  of  Christian  Doctrine,"  in  two  volumes,  which  was  pub- 
lished by  Harper  &  Bros. 


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In  addition  to  his  present  Professorship  in  the  above  mentioned  school  he  has  superin- 
tended the  post-graduate  work  in  the  so-called  School  of  All  Sciences,  being  Acting  Dean  of 
that  school. 

Received  the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Lawrence  University,  Appleton,  Wis.,  in  1887.  In 
1894  he  published  a  work  on  Church  History  in  five  volumes:  (a)  "The  Early  Church,"  in  one 
volume;  (fr)  "Mediaeval,"  in  one  volume;  (c)  "Modern,"  in  three  volumes. 

In  the  Fall  of  1895  he  was  appointed  to  the  Chair  of  Systematic  Theology,  which  position 
he  now  holds. 

He  married  Louise  ]\IcLellan.  of  Brunswick,  Me.,  September  i6th,  1875. 

CHILDREN. 

Herbert  Prescott,  born  November  4th,  1877,  Newton,  Mass. 

Ernest  McLellan,  born  July  lOth,  1880,  Newton,  Mass. 

Herbert  P.  is  in  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts.  Boston  University,  the  Class  of  '99. 

Ernest  McLellan  is  in  the  Newton  High  School. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  2nd  prize  English  Composition  third  term  Sophomore.  Townsend.  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  Philosophical,  third  in  Class. 


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*JOHN   WILLIAM    SHOWALTER. 

*JoHN  William  Shovvalter,  son  of  Benoni  Freeman  and  Margaret  Rachel  (Whipps) 
Showalter,  was  born  in  Minerva,  Mason  County,  Ky.,  February  8th,  1844,  and  died  December 
loth,  1898,  at  Chicago,  111.,  of  bronchial  pneumonia  and  jaundice,  resulting  from  a  slight  cold. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Wm.  W.  Richeson  at  Maysville  Seminary,  Kentucky, 
having  been  educated  in  the  public  and  private  schools  of  Mason  County,  and  entered  the  Class 
of  '67  first  term   Junior  year. 

He  was  of  German  and  Scotch-Irish  descent.  His  father  and  grandfather  were  tillera  of 
the  soil,  and  his  ancestors  on  this  side  of  the  house  were  from  Connecticut  and  Pennsylvania. 
On  his  mother's  side  his  ancestors  were  among  the  pioneer  settlers  in  Kentucky,  coming  from 
Maryland  and  Virginia.  The  Civil  War,  which  broke  out  just  as  he  was  passing  out  of  boy- 
hood, gave  him  many  vivid  memories  marked  by  the  peculiar  relation  in  which  he  .stood  to  the 
combating  parties ;  he  had  relatives  who  fought  for  and  against  the  Stars  and  Stripes.     After 


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graduation  he  studied  Law  at  his  home  in  Minerva,  Ky.,  residing  there  for  several  years.  In 
i86g  he  went  to  Chicago,  111.,  where  he  continued  the  study  and  practice  of  his  profession. 
He  first  entered  the  office  of  Moore  &  Canfield,  and  in  187 1  was  admitted  to  practice  in  Illinois. 
Later  he  joined  the  firm  of  Abbott  &  Oliver,  which,  on  the  death  of  Mr.  Abbott  in  1890,  was 
known  by  the  name  of  Oliver  &  Showalter.  A  close  friendship  sprang  up  between  the  two, 
and  he  took  up  his  residence  with  the  family  of  his  partner. 

He  had  all  along  attended  to  the  general  practice  of  the  law,  though  making  something  of 
a  specialty  of  corporation  law.  In  politics  he  adhered  to  the  general  principles  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  but  never  was  an  active  seeker  for  office. 

On  the  2Sth  of  February,  1895,  President  Cleveland  appointed  him  Judge  of  the  Seventh 
Judicial  Circuit,  embracing  the  States  of  Illinois,  Wisconsin  and  Indiana,  an  appointment 
which  was  a  surprise  to  his  friends  and  himself,  as  it  was  made  without  any  solicitation  on  his 
part,  through  the  friendship  of  Secretaries  Morton  and  Gresham,  backed  by  'his  fine  legal 
reputation  in  Chicago.  His  recommendation  for  this  position  came  from  the  most  influential 
judges  and  lawyers,  he  being  considered  one  of  the  best  known  and  ablest  practitioners  at  the 
Bar.  The  only  time  he  essayed  political  preferment  was  in  1894,  when  he  ran  as  the  Demo- 
cratic candidate  for  Judge  of  the  Superior  Court,  but  was  defeated  by  Judge  Gary. 

His  death  was  very  sudden  and  came  as  a  great  blow  to  the  Chicago  Bar,  by  whom  he  was 
greatly  beloved.     Three  weeks  before  his  death  he  contracted  a  slight  cold  while  sitting  on 
the  bench  in  his  chambers,  but,  though  warned  to  take  care  of  himself,  he  thought  little  of  it. 
His  associate  Judges,  Jenkins  and  Wood,  had  gone  to  their  homes  in  Milwaukee  and  In 
dianapolis  several  days  before,  suffering  from  slight  colds. 

Resolutions  of  sorrow  and  regret  were  passed  at  a  meeting  of  the  Judges  of  the  Federal, 
State  and  County  Courts  held  at  the  Lincoln  Club,  and  addresses  of  eulogy  were  made  by 
Judges  Freeman,  Burke  and  Elliott.  Members  of  the  Chicago  Bar,  the  Patent  Lawyers' 
Association  and  Illinois  Club  were  selected  to  act  as  pall-bearers,  the  remains  being  taken  to 
Georgetown,  Ky.,  after  a  simple  service  at  his  late  residence. 

While  in  College  he  gave  promise  of  his  future  success.  After  a  close  and  spirited  con- 
test for  Class  Orator,  he  was  elected  by  a  small  majority.  His  oration  on  presentation  day 
was  one  of  the  finest  productions  our  Class  ever  listened  to. 

Our  friend  never  married.  He  was  devotedly  attached  to  his  mother,  whom  he  wor- 
shiped.    She  survives  him. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Spade  and  Grave,  Honorary  Wolf's  Head  1895 ;  2nd  prize  Junior  Prize 
Debate,  ist  prize  Senior  Prize  Debate.    Class  Orator. 


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*FRANK  LEWIS  SKEELS. 

*Frank  Lewis  Skeels,  son  of  Nelson  Dickinson  and  Lucy  Ann  (Lewis)  Skeels,  was  born 
at  Coldwater,  Mich.,  January  8th,  1846. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Simon  T.  Frost  at  the  Hudson  River  Institute,  and 
entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

His  ancestors  on  his  father's  side  came  from  New  York  State,  and  those  on  his  mother's 
side  from  Connecticut. 

After  graduation  he  read  Law  for  a  time  in  Coldwater,  Mich.,  his  home,  with  Messrs. 
Loveridge  &  Shipman.  He  then  attended  the  Law  School  at  the  University  of  Michigan,  Ann 
Arbor,  where  he  graduated,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  1869.  He  then  formed  a  part- 
nership with  Mr.  Chas.  D.  Wright  for  several  years,  and  was  Prosecuting  Attorney  of  the  city 
for  two  terms  in  1877-78. 


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His  death  occurred  from  malarial  fever  in  i8qi.  He  stood  in  the  highest  ranks,  both  as  a 
lawyer  and  a  citizen. 

He  was  married  to  Ella  Van  Valkenburgh,  December  22nd,  1869,  at  Coldwater,  Mich. 

CHILDREN. 

Nelson  Dickinson,  born  November  23rd.  1872,  Coldwater,  Mich. ;  died  March  15th,  1892. 
Coldwater,  Mich. 

Annie  Van  Valkenburgh,  born  Maj^  23rd,  1876,  Coldwater,  Mich. ;  died  January  5th,  1895, 
Coldwater,  Mich. 

Mary  L.,  born  August  24th,  1879,  Coldwater,  Mich. 

Nelson  and  Annie  attended  the  High  School  at  Coldwater.  Both  left  a  few  months  pre- 
vious to  their  sickness  and  death. 

Mary  L.  (called  Dixie)  was  an  attendant  of  the  High  School  till  January,  1897.  She  and 
her  mother  are  the  only  members  of  the  familj-  now  liviog. 

COILEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  Delta  Kappa,  Alpha  Delta  Phi  and  Spade  and  Grave.  First  Colloquy. 


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FREDERICK   ISAAC    SMALL. 

Frederick  Isaac  Small,  son  of  Isaac  and  Susan  Cady  (Knapp)  Small,  was  born  at 
Herkimer,  N.  Y.,  October  17th,  1847. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Dr.  Benjamin  VV.  Dwight,  at  Clinton,  N.  Y.,  and 
entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

His  paternal  grandfather,  Jacob  Small,  was  the  son  of  Jacob  Small  (Schmal),  who,  com- 
ing from  Hesse  Darmstadt,  settled  in  the  Mohawk  Valley  prior  to  the  Revoiution.  His 
paternal  grandmother  was  Hannah  Potter,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Wm.  Potter,  of  the 
Rhode  Island  family  of  that  name. 

On  his  mother's  side  her  grandfather,  Philip  Knapp,  was  the  son  of  parents  who  came 
from  Holland  to  this  country  early  in  the  Eighteenth  Century.  Her  grandmother  was 
Didemma  Cady,  whose  mother  was  a  Beebe,  her  mother  being  a  Palmer,  of  the  Connecticut 
family  of  that  name. 


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After  graduation  he  studied  Law  in  New  York,  and  then  removed  to  his  home  in  Little 
Falls,  where  he  has  pursued  the  practice  of  his  profession  ever  since. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK 

Brothers,  "Sigma  Eps,"  and  D.  K.  E. 


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BENJAMIN    SMITH. 

Benjamin  Smith,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Elizabeth  Smith,  was  born  at  Solebury,  Bucks 
County,  Pa.,  August  ist,  1840. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  Williston  Seminary.  Easthampton,  Mass.,  under  Josiah 
Clark,  and  entered  the  Class  of  "66  in  the  Summer  of  1862.  He  was  with  that  Class  only  a 
few  weeks.     He  entered  the  Class  of  'd"]  first  term  Freshman  year. 

Jonathan  Smith,  his  father,  was  not  a  College  man;  occupation — Farmer. 

Both  his  father  and  mother  descended  from  Robert  Smith,  who  came  to  this  country 
about  1700.  Nothing  known  of  ancestry  prior  to  above  named  date.  On  his  father's  side  his 
great-grandfather  was  the  eldest  son  of  .said  Robert  Smith,  his  next  younger  brother,  his 
great-great-grandfather  on  his  mother's  side.  There  was  but  one  deed  between  William  Penn 
and  Robert  Smith  for  the  homestead  property,  which  continued  in  the  family  five  generations 
down  to  about  the  year  i86q.     Members  of  this  family  attained  in  their  day  some  notoriety. 


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Timothy  Smith,  son  of  Robert,  was  elected  Sheriff  of  Bucks  County  six  successive  terms 
Robert  and  Joseph  Smith,  grandsons  of  Robert  Smith,  made  the  first  plow  ever  made  with  an 
iron  mould  board.    Joseph  was  the  first  in  the  County  to  burn  successfully  Anthracite  Coal. 

Since  graduating  Benjamin  has  been  Principal  of  the  Seminary  at  Doylestown,  Pa.,  teach- 
ing with  remarkably  good  success.  In  June,  1877,  he  went  to  New  York  City,  where  he  ob- 
tained a  position  as  Principal  in  the  "Friends'  Seminary,"  corner  of  Sixteenth  Street  and 
Rutherford  Place.  He  left  New  York  City  in  July,  1886,  and  in  the  Fall  of  that  year  he  re- 
moved to  Swarthmore,  Pa.,  where  he  accepted  the  position  of  Professor  in  Rhetoric  in 
Sw^arthmore  College  in  1886,  and  remained  there  until  1892,  chiefly  as  teacher  of  English,  Men- 
tal Philosophy  and  Logic,  with  title  of  Principal  of  the  Preparatory  Department,  and  the  last 
four  years  and  a  half  as  Vice-President  of  the  College. 

Resigning  in  1892,  the  next  year  and  a  half  was  largely  spent  in  Chicago  as  Secretary  of 
the  Friends'  Religious  Congress.  Since  then  he  has  devoted  much  of  his  time  to  teaching, 
and  at  present  is  Principal  of  Plymouth  Meeting  Friends'  School,  near  Philadelphia,  Pa.  The 
only  change  in  his  family  is  the  marriage  of  his  daughter  two  years  smce  and  the  advent  of  .1 
granddaughter. 

He  married  Sarah  E.  Simpson,  of  Highton,  Pa.,  October  3rd,  1867. 

CHILDREN. 

Fannj'  B..  born  ^lay  2nd,  1870,  Doylestown,  Pa. 

\Vm.  Clarence,  born  April  30th,  1872,  Doylestown,  Pa. 

Herbert  T..  born  April  19th,  1874,  Doylestown,  Pa. 

Fanny  B.  graduated  from  Swarthmore  College  in  the  Class  of  '90.  She  married  Frank  S. 
Herr.  March  26th,  1895,  at  Newtown,  Pa. 

His  two  sons,  Clarence  and  Herbert,  attended  Swarthmore  College  for  a  time.  The 
former  is  bookkeeper  (assistant)  in  the  firm  of  Garrett  Buchanan  &  Co.,  Philadelphia  (paper). 
The  latter  is  in  the  wholesale  shipping  department  of  Strawbridge  &  Clothier. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  Gamma  Nu,  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Dissertation. 


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JAMES    MAGOFFIN    SPENCER. 


James  Magoffin  Spencer,  son  of  Rev.  Ichabod  Smith  (Union  College,  1822)  and  Hannah 
(Magoffin)  Spencer,  was  born  at  Brooklyn.  New  York,  April  9th,  1839. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  under  Dr.  S.  H.  Tay- 
lor, and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

His  father  was  a  clergyman,  and  was  settled  over  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y..  for  tw.enty-two  years.  He  published  two  volumes  of  a  work  called  "A 
Pastor's  Sketches,"  which  were  so  popular  that  they  ran  through  more  than  twenty  editions, 
being  translated  into  several  European  languages  and  at  least  one  Asiatic.  His  grandfather, 
four  times  removed,  was  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Suffield,  Conn.  Thomas  Spencer  was 
the  second  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Spencer,  of  Womleighton,  Northamptonshire,  England,  where 
in  the  parish  church  are  the  tombs  of  his  ancestors  for  centuries — one  was  a  Crusader,  John 
Spencer — and  where  the  tower  of  the  family  castle  still  stands  (the  rest  was  battered  down  by 

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the  Roundheads  in  Cromwell's  time).  From  it  can  be  perceived  the  turrets  of  the  abode  of 
the  present  head  of  the  family,  Earl  Spencer,  at  one  time  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  and 
known  as  possessing  the  finest  private  library  in  England.  The  genealogy  runs  uninterruptedly 
back  to  a  Baron  Hugh  De  Spencer,  who  came  over  with  William  the  Conqueror.  The  family 
in  this  country  has  not  fallen  below  its  record.  The  men  have  been  mostly  judges,  clergymen, 
physicians,  lawyers  and  members  of  the  Legislatures.  A  great-uncle  was  Governor  of  Ver- 
mont; a  cousin,  John  C.  Spencer,  Secretary  of  War  in  i8[2.  On  the  maternal  side  his  mother 
was  Hannah,  daughter  of  John  Magoffin,  an  Irish  gentleman,  educated  in  Queen's  College, 
Dublin.  He  married  Katherine  Cole,  daughter  of  James  Cole,  Lieutenant  Governor  of  the 
Province  of  New  Jersey  under  King  George  III.  His  mother  (Hannah  Hess  by  name)  was 
the  first  white  child  born  in  New  Jersey. 

He  received  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  from  the  Union  University  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  in  i860. 

For  six  years  after  graduation  was  Professor  in  the  National  Deaf  and  Dumb  College  at 
Washington,  D.  C.  In  1874  he  sailed  for  Europe  and  settled  in  Munich,  Bavaria.  His  ad- 
dress was  "Bayerische  Vereinsbank." 

Was  married  July  28th,  1878,  to  Mary  Fisk,  of  Boston. 

His  life  is  one  of  leisure,  diversified  by  extensive  travel  and  study.  He  has  traveled  in 
Austria.  Italy,  Switzerland,  Denmark  and  Norway. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RAKK. 

Brothers,  "Sigma  Eps,"  D.  K.  E.  and  Skull  and  Bones;  2nd  prize  for  Solution  Mathe- 
matical Problems  Junior  and  Senior  years,  3rd  prize  Declamation  third  term  Sophomore.  High 
Oration,  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 


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ERNEST    GORDON    STEDMAN. 


Ernest  Gordon  Stedman,  son  of  Griffin  A.  Stedman  and  Mary  Ap  Owen  (Shields)  Sted- 
man,  was  born  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  October  30th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Saml.  M.  Capron  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  entered 
the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

Upon  graduation  he  entered  Columbia  Law  School  in  October.  1867,  and  graduated  in 
May,  1869.  He  then  entered  the  law  firm  of  Brown,  Hall  &  Vanderpoel  as  a  clerk,  where  he 
remained  for  several  years.  On  November  ist,  1877,  he  formed  a  law  partnership  with  Messrs. 
Hascall  and  Stetson,  under  the  firm  name  of  Hascall,  Stetson  &  Stedman.  He  continued  with 
this  firm  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Hascall,  June  30th.  1879.  when  the  firm  was  dissolved.  He  then 
practiced  law  on  his  own  account  until  November,  1885.  In  November,  1885,  he  formed  a  law 
partnership  with   Charles  E.   Souther    (Harvard,   '65),   under  the   firm   name  of   Souther  & 

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Stedman.    In  1893  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Mr.  Larkin,  a  Princeton  graduate,  his  former 
partnership  being  dissolved.     His  address  is  No.  7  Nassau  street,  New  York  City. 
He  married  Nina  M.  Marcy,  of  New  York  City,  June  15th,  1884. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES^    HONORS^    RANK. 

Linonia,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Phi  Theta  Psi,  and  Psi  Upsilon. 


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♦WILLIAM   LEWIS   STEVENSON. 


♦William  Lewis  Stevenson,  son  of  John  Stephenson,  was  born  at  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  Decem- 
ber loth,  1843.     He  died  July,  1879. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Rev.  James  Patterson,  D.  D.,  at  Westminster  Col- 
legiate Institute,  New  Wilmington,  Pa.,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

Since  graduation  he  studied  Theology  in  Western  Theological  Seminary,  Allegheny  City, 
Pa.  Was  offered  the  Assistant  Professorship  of  Hebrew  at  the  Western  Theological 
Seminary,  but  declined  it.  The  following  from  his  brother  is  all  that  could  be  learned  in  regard 
to  him : 

'"My  brother,  after  leaving  Yale,  completed  his  study  for  the  ministry  at  Danville,  Ky., 
and  the  Western  Theological  Seminary,  in  Allegheny  City;  was  licensed  as  a  minister  in  the 
Presbyterian  Church  and  died  from  sunstroke  July,   1879.     Yours,  etc., 

"A.  K.  Stevenson." 

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♦EBENEZER  FOWLER  STODDARD. 


*Ebenezer  Fowler  Stoddard,  son  of  Col.  Henry  and  Susan  C.  (Williams)  Stoddard,  was 
born  at  Dayton,  Ohio,  July  i6th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  J.  W.  Hall  at  the  Dayton  Central  High  School,  and 
entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863.     Died  suddenly  at  Dayton,  Ohio,  May  31st,  1887. 

After  graduation  was  engaged  for  five  years  in  the  manufacture  of  linseed  oil,  varnish  and 
paints  at  Dayton,  Ohio ;  two  years  he  spent  m  the  manufacture  of  brass  goods,  and  then  was 
engaged  until  the  time  of  his  death  in  the  manufacture  of  agricultural  implements. 

To  every  man  of  the  Class  of  '67  his  death  was  a  personal  loss.  As  a  classmate  he  will 
ever  be  remembered.  His  presence  was  singularly  attractive,  his  character  was  pure,  his  dis- 
position gentle,  his  manner  winning.  He  gave  the  world  assurance  of  a  man.  He  fulfilled  the 
promise  of  his  youth.  The  following  note  appeared  in  the  "Dayton  Journal."  We  who  re- 
member him  so  well  read  this  tribute  to  a  noble  life  with  mingled  feelings  of  joy  and  sadness: 

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"  The  universal  expression  of  sorrow  throughout  the  city  which  followed  the  announce- 
ment of  E.  Fowler  Stoddard's  death  was  the  highest  tribute  that  could  be  paid  to  the  memory 
of  a  singularly  pure,  upright  and  noble  character.  It  was  felt  on  all  sides  that  the  community 
had  sustained  an  immeasurable  loss,  and  those  who  were  not  favored  with  the  pleasure  of 
intimate  association  with  him,  appreciated  none  the  less  the  sterling  qualities  of  manhood  that 
made  him  a  valuable  citizen,  a  beloved  friend  and  a  model  parent  and  husband.  From  his 
early  boyhood  he  was  distinguished  for  his  buoyancy  of  spirits,  and  his  generous  and  untiring 
energy  in  all  his  undertakings.  In  his  mature  years  these  characteristics  were  intensified, 
and  in  all  his  business,  social  and  church  relationships  he  retained  his  youthful  ardor  and  gave 
the  whole  measure  of  his  powers  to  the  performance  of  his  duties.  Everything  that  claimed 
his  attention  felt  his  quickening  impulse. 

"  He  was  the  son  of  Henry  and  Susan  Stoddard,  and  was  born  on  the  i6th  of  July,  1845, 
in  a  house  which  occupied  the  site  of  the  home  he  lived  in  nearly  the  whole  of  his  life.  After 
completing  the  city  school  course  he  entered  Yale  College  and  was  graduated  in  1867.  The 
same  devoted  attachment  of  friends  that  marked  his  later  years  existed  in  his  College  life, 
and  he  was  one  of  those  princes  of  good  fellows  whom  his  mates  delighted  to  honor  with  the 
coveted  emblem  of  good  fellowship,  the  traditional  wooden  spoon.  In  1868  he  engaged  with 
his  brother,  John  W.  Stoddard,  in  the  manufacture  of  linseed  oil.  In  1872  he  was  appointed 
Superintendent  of  the  Dayton  Steam  Gauge  Company,  where  he  continued  until  1875,  when 
the  Stoddard  Rake  Manufacturing  firm  was  organized,  and  he  became  a  leading  member,  and 
was  Vice-President  and  Superintendent  of  the  company  at  the  time  of  his  death.  Here  he 
showed  fine  business  ability,  and  was  given  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  the  large  force  of 
workmen  employed  to  an  unusual  degree.  His  straightforward,  manly  qualities  were  every- 
where recognized,  and  his  associates  all  felt  they  had  in  him  a  firm  friend  and  judicious  coun- 
sellor. 

"His  devotion  to  his  business  was  equaled  only  by  his  devotion  to  his  Church,  Christ 
Episcopal,  of  which  he  was  long  a  member,  and  here  the  practical  and  earnest  side  of 
his  character  was  continually  manifested  in  his  untiring  efforts  to  promote  its  interests. 
Simple,  unaffected  and  earnest,  he  was,  at  the  same  time,  an  acknowledged  leader,  and  the 
genuine  Christian  character  he  always  displayed  was  in  a  high  degree  inspiring  to  all  of  his 
associates.  He  was  particularly  interested  in  the  Sunday-school  work,  and  was  superintendent 
for  some  time  of  the  parent  school,  and  one  of  the  chief  promoters  of  this  mission  work. 
His  relaxation  from  business  was  mainly  found  in  field  sports,  of  which  he  was  a  great 
lover.  Few  men  had  a  wider  or  more  accurate  knowledge  of  hunting  dogs,  and  he  enjoyed 
a  national  reputation  for  the  value  and  reliability  of  his  judgment  in  such  affairs.  His  latest 
.  public  work  was  in  and  of  the  new  board  of  trade,  and  it  was  while  returning  from  a  meet- 
ing of  its  board  of  managers,  of  which  he  was  a  member,  that  he  met  his  untimely  fate." 

He  married  Bessie  Lowe,  of  Daji:on,  Ohio,  November  10,   i863. 

CHILDREN. 

Mariana  A.,  born  September  30th,  1869.  Dayton,  O. ;  died  April  6th,  1870,  Dayton,  O. 

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Frances,  born,  March  6th  1873,  Dayton,  O. 
John  Lowe,  born  Oct.  12,  1875,  Dayton,  O. 
Carrie,  born  January  ist,  1879,  Dayton,  O. 

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*  MOSES  STRONG. 

*  Moses  Strong,  son  of  Hon.  Moses  M.  Strong  (Dartmouth,  1829)  and  Caroline  Frances 
(Green)  Strong,  was  born  at  Mineral  Point,  Wisconsin,  June  17,  1846.  Died  August  18, 
1877. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  G.  M.  Skinner  at  Mineral  Point,  Wis.,  and  en- 
tered the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

His  father  was  a  lawyer. 

Mrs.  Moses  M.  Strong  was  Caroline  Frances  Green,  daughter  of  Dr.  Isaac  Green,  of 
Windsor,  Vt.     Moses  M.  Strong  was  born  in  Vermont  in  1810,  his  parents  living  in  Rutland. 

He  came  to  Wisconsin  in  1836,  was  appointed  U.  S.  Attorney  for  Wisconsin  Territory 
in  1838 ;  was  President  of  Legislative  Council  in  1842-43 ;  was  Speaker  of  Wisconsin  As- 
sembly in  1850;  was  delegate  to  Constitutional  Convention  in  1846  and  a  member  of  the  As- 
sembly in  1857.     Was  President  of  State  Bar  Association  of  Wisconsin  from  its  organization 


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until  he  resigned  the  office,  in  July,  1894.     Shortly  before  his  death  he  was  appointed  Chan- 
cellor of  the  diocese  of  Milwaukee  in  the  Episcopal  Church. 

Moses  Strong  was  drowned  August  18,  1877,  in  the  Big  Flambeau  River,  near  Stevens 
Point,  Wis. 

After  graduating  from  Yale  he  remained  at  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  until  July, 
1868.  In  1869  he  became  a  student  at  Clausthal  Hartz,  Germany;  in  1870,  was  a  student 
at  Freiburg,  Sachsen,  Germany.  From  1871  to  1872  he  was  civil  engineer  on  the  Northern 
Pacific  and  Wisconsin  Central  Railways.  From  1873  to  1877  was  on  the  Wisconsin  Geo- 
logical Survey,  acting  as  Assistant  State  Geologist.  We  have  received  the  appended  notices 
concerning  his  melancholy  death : 

The  following  from  the  pen  of  the  State  Geologist,  which  we  find  in  the  Madison 
"Journal,"  will  be  read  with  pleased  interest  in  this  community,  where  Mr.  Strong's  worth 
was  so  generally  recognized  and  so  highly  appreciated.  The  details  of  the  circumstances 
attending  his  death,  as  published  in  the  "Democrat"  at  the  time,  are  so  accurate  and  com- 
plete as  to  forbid  any  attempt  on  our  part  to  improve  upon  it,  hence  we  reproduce  the 
important  part  thereof. 

(From  the  National  Democrat.) 

"  His  object  was  to  make  a  geological  examination  of  all  the  branches  of  the  Chippewa 
River,  one  of  the  largest  of  which  is  the  Flambeau  River,  laid  down  on  some  maps  as  the 
Manedowish. 

"He  left  Stevens  Point  on  Thursday,  the  i6th,  accompanied  by  William  P.  Gundry,  of 
Mineral  Point,  and  John  Hawn,  of  Stevens  Point,  a  guide  whom  he  had  hired,  who  was 
familiarly  known  as  'Sailor  Jack,'  and  who  was  an  experienced  woodman,  and  an  expert  in 
canoe  navigation.  The  party  went  by  railroad  to  the  crossing  of  the  Flambeau  River,  where 
they  arrived  about  6  o'clock  P.  M.  The  next  day — Friday — was  spent  in  procuring  boats  and 
other  preparations  for  ascending  the  river.  Mr.  Strong  obtained  a  light  skiff,  made  of  riven 
white  cedar,  which  he  thought  well  adapted  to  the  purposes  for  which  he  wished  to  use  it. 
He  also  obtained  a  birch  bark  canoe,  in  which  were  to  be  transported  the  supplies  and  camp 
equipage  for  the  party  of  three. 

They  commenced  the  ascent  of  the  Flambeau  on  Saturday  morning,  and  continuea  it 
for  nine  or  ten  miles  without  any  remarkable  incident,  until  nearly  3  o'clock  P.  M.,  when 
they  came  to  some  rapids,  supposed  to  be  in  Sec.  28,  T.  41,  R.  i,  E.  The  rapids  were  about 
150  feet  from  the  foot  to  the  head.  The  bed  of  the  river  was  filled  with  numerous  rocks, 
over  and  about  which  the  water  rushed  rapidly.  'Sailor  Jack'  took  the  lead  in  the  bark  canoe 
and  its  freight,  followed  by  Mr.  Strong  and  young  Gundry  in  the  cedar  skiff.  Jack  had 
reached  the  head  of  the  rapids,  or  nearly  so,  as  the  others  were  entering  upon  the  ascent. 
Strong  was  standing  in  the  bow  of  the  skiff,  using  a  long  light  pole  for  propelling  it,  while 
Gundry  was  sitting  in  the  stern,  using  the  oars  for  the  same  purpose.  Near  the  foot  of  the 
rapids  was  a  rock,  past  which  they  pushed  the  skiff  far  enough  so  that  the  current  struck  its 
bow  and  turned  it  around  the  rock  in  such  a  manner  that  the  whole  force  of  the  current. 

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striking  the  boat  broadsides,  tipped  it  over.  As  it  was  about  going  over,  Strong  jurrjped  from 
it  into  the  water,  and  stood  upon  a  rock  in  the  bed  of  the  river,  over  which  the  water  was 
about  three  and  a  half  feet  deep  and  came  up  to  his  waist.  Immediately  below  the  rock 
where  he  was  standing  and  holding  on  to  the  skiff  the  water  was  twelve  feet  deep,  into  which 
Gundry  went,  as  the  skiff  upset.  At  that  instant  he  halloed  to  Strong:  'I  can't  swim.'  who 
replied,  'Hold  to  the  boat.'  Gundry  held  on  at  first,  but  in  attempting  to  get  a  better  hold, 
or  in  some  way,  lost  his  hold  of  the  boat,  and  was  carried  into  the  water,  into  which  he  was 
sinking.  Simultaneously  the  skiff  went  down  stream,  and  Strong  left  his  position  of  com- 
parative safety  and  was  immediately  in  the  deep  water,  and  sunk  to  the  bottom  of  it,  to 
rise  no  more. 

"  Why  he  left  the  place  where  he  was  standing  and  let  the  boat  go,  is  a  matter  of 
conjecture.  One  theory  is  that  he  slipped  and  could  stand  there  no  longer,  but  this  is  not  as 
probable  as  is  the  theory  of  the  men  who  were  engaged  in  searching  for  his  body,  which  is 
that  as  soon  as  he  saw  that  his  friend  and  protege,  Gundry,  had  lost  his  hold  of  the  boat  and 
was  sinking,  he  threw  himself  into  the  deep  water  in  the  vain  (as  it  proved)  effort  to  save 
his  companion  from  drowning.  He  was  a  good  swimmer,  very  self-confident  and  self-reliant, 
and  would  not  have  been  likely  to  apprehend  any  disaster  to  himself  in  an  effort  to  save  his 
friend,  and  if  he  had,  the  apprehension  would  not  have  deterred  him. 

"  The  reason  why  he  did  not  reach  Gundry  is  very  satisfactorily  explained  by  Gundry  him- 
self, who  says  that  while  he  was  under  water  he  distinctly  saw  Strong,  with  his  legs  drawn 
up,  as  in  a  sitting  position,  and  his  arms  bent  in  front  of  his  breast,  in  which  position  he  sank.  It 
therefore  would  seem  to  be  quite  certain  that  in  his  effort  to  save  Gundry  Mr.  Strong  was 
seized  with  cramps,  which  deprived  him  of  the  power  of  swimming,  and  resulted  in 
his  own  drowning,  and  the  certainty  is  increased  by  the  fact  that  the  body  was  found  on  the 
bottom  of  the  river,  not  more  than  thirty  or  forty  feet  from  where  he  had  been  standing." 

(From  the  State  Journal.) 

"  Rarely  have  we  been  called  upon  to  chronicle  a  sadder  event  than  that  borne  to  us  yes- 
terday in  the  announcement  of  the  sudden  death  of  Moses  Strong,  Assistant  State  Geologist. 
A  young  man  in  the  early  prime  of  life,  in  the  full  exercise  of  manly  strength  and  vigor- 
ous health,  in  the  rich  endowment  of  a  rare  intellect,  in  the  midst  of  active  duty,  on  the  eve 
of  realizing  the  first  grateful  fruits  of  his  faithful  labors,  amid  the  dawn  of  promising  hopes 
of  a  bright  future,  rejoicing  in  the  love  of  a  devoted  wife,  fondly  called  father  by  loving  and 
tender  children,  devotedly  loved  by  parents  and  kindred,  admired  by  friends  and  honored 
by  the  Commonwealth,  to  be  suddenly  called  from  all  these  is  an  event  of  no  common  sad- 
ness. Yet  through  this  sadness  shines  the  grateful  fact  that  his  last  hour  was  devoted  to  the 
performance  of  duty  and  the  development  of  truth. 

"  Early  in  the  season  Mr.  Strong  had  explored  a  large  tract,  occupied  by  the  copper- 
bearing  formation  in  the  region  of  the  Upper  St.  Croix  River,  in  continuation  of  his  import- 
ant investigations  of  last  year,  and,  having  completed  that,  had  examined  the  Huronian  for- 

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mation  of  Barron  County  with  his  accustomed  abiHty  and  success.  Subsequently  he  spent 
a  short  time  at  his  home,  and  in  Madison,  revising  the  proof  of  his  contribution  to  the  forth- 
coming volume  of  the  report  of  the  Geological  Survey.  He  had  but  just  returned  to  the 
field,  and  was  entering  upon  an  extensive  series  of  explorations  in  the  valley  of  the  Chip- 
pewa River  and  its  tributaries,  which  were  to  complete  his  field  work  upon  the  survey,  when 
the  sad  accident  befell  him.  His  loss  to  the  survey  will  be  irreparable.  Yet  such  were  his 
careful  and  painstaking  habits  that  his  clear  and  accurate  notes  and  sketches  will  reduce  this 
loss,  as  far  as  the  past  is  concerned,  to  a  minimum.  He  had  elaborated,  so  far  as  the  state  of 
progress  of  the  field  would  advantageously  permit,  the  results  of  his  last  year's  explorations 
upon  the  copper-bearing  series.  The  notes,  sketches  and  maps  of  the  work  are  left  essen- 
tially as  they  were  taken  in  the  field,  and  never  can  receive  at  the  hands  of  another  that  full- 
ness and  completeness  of  elaboration  which  they  would  have  received  from  their  author. 

"  Mr.  Strong  possessed  an  education  of  unusual  excellence.  To  a  sound  academical  edu- 
cation, he  added  the  classical  culture  of  Yale  College  and  a  professional  training  of  a  Ger- 
man University.  In  character  he  was  modest  and  unassuming,  and  commanded  respect 
rather  by  the  merits  he  could  not  conceal  than  by  any  that  were  assumed.  His  quiet  manner 
never  fully  revealed  the  real  administrative  strength  which  he  possessed.  With  most  men  a 
liberal  discount  may  be  made  in  what  they  seem  to  do,  in  ascertaining  what  they  really  ac- 
complish, but  with  Mr.  Strong  a  generous  percentage  was  always  to  be  added  to  appear- 
ances to  obtain  the  fact.  To  attractive  personal  traits  he  added  an  integrity  that  was  ab- 
solutely above  question,  and  a  candor  and  honesty  of  expression  that  were  eminent.  As  a 
co-laborer  in  the  scientific  investigation  of  the  structure  of  the  State,  he  enjoyed  the  unhesi- 
tating confidence  and  admiration  of  his  associates. 

"  The  shadow  of  a  deep  loss  has  thrice  been  thrown  across  the  history  of  the  survey ;  a 
Lapham,  an  Eaton,  a  Strong :  honored  names,  yet  alas  the  sacrifice.  •  T,  C.  C." 

In  a  letter  to  the  Secretary  from  Hon.  Moses  Strong  we  are  informed  that  his  son  was  a 
Royal  Arch  Mason  and  a  Knight  Templar,  and  was  buried  at  Mineral  Point,  Wis.,  his  home, 
on  the  22nd  of  August,  by  the  Knights  Templar,  according  to  the  rules  of  that  order. 

He  married  Julia  M.  Jones  at  Mineral  Point,  Wisconsin,  February  13th,  1873.  She  died 
July  4th,    1879. 

CHILDREN. 

Agnes  Allen  McCure.  born  February  19th.  1874,  Mineral  Point,  Wis. ;  died  January  4th. 
1878.  Mineral  Point,  Wisconsin. 

Anna  Mary,  born  May  19th,  1875.  Mineral  Point.  W^is. 

Anna  M.  graduated  from  the  University  of  Wisconsin  in  the  Class  of  '94.  She  was 
married  at  Mineral  Point,  Wis..  December  31st.  1895.  to  John  Monroe  Parkinson,  son  of 
Prof.  J.  B.  Parkinson,  Vice-President  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  and  Professor  of  Con- 
stitutional and  International   Law  in  the  University. 

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JAMES  ANDREW  SWAN. 

James  Andrew  Swan,  son  of  Joseph  Rockwell  and  Hannah  Ann  (Andrews)  Swan, 
was  born  at  Columbus,  Ohio,   September  15th,   1844. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  in  Gen.  Russell's  School  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  entered 
the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

His  father,  Joseph  Rockwell  Swan,  was  educated  at  the  Aurora  Academy,  Aurora,  N.  Y., 
and  was  born  in  Westernville,  N.  Y.,  and  his  ancestors  came  from  Petersboro,  N.  H.,  origi- 
nally from  the  North  of  Ireland.  About  1820  he  went  West  and  studied  law  with  an  uncle  in 
Columbus,  Ohio,  and  died  there  in  1884. 

His  mother  was  born  at  Derby,  Conn.  Her  father  having  lost  his  fortune  in  the  War  of 
1812,  the  family  went  West  and  settled  in  the  present  city  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  when  there 
were  but  two  other  white  families  there.  ?Ier  father  and  also  her  grandfather  were  grad- 
uates of  Yale  and  Episcopal  Clergymen. 


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Since  graduating  has  been  in  business,  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  hinges  at  Colum- 
bus, Ohio.     In  1871  he  removed  to  Joliet,  111.,  engaging  in  the  hardware  business. 

In  the  year  1876  he  went  again  to  Columbus,  Ohio.  About  the  Fall  of  1880  he  re- 
moved to  Newport,  R.  I.,  where  he  now  resides.  He  is  not  engaged  in  any  business  at 
present. 

He  married  Jane  Parsons,  of  Columbus,  O.,  June  4th,  1885. 

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*PETER    RAWSON    TAFT. 

*  Peter  Rawson  Taft,  son  of  Hon.  Alfonso  Taft  (Yale,  1833)  and  Fanny  (Phelps; 
Taft,  was  born  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  May  loth,   1846;  died  June  3d,   1889. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

His  father,  Alphonso  Taft,  was  a  distinguished  lawyer  and  judge,  and  was  appointed  At- 
torney General  in  the  second  term  of  General  Grant's  administration. 

His  four  brothers  graduated  as  follows:  Charles  P.,  Yale  '64;  VVm.  H.,  Yale  '78;  Henry 
W.,  Yale  '80;  and  Horace  D.,  Yale  '83. 

A  few  months  after  he  was  graduated  Taft  had  a  severe  attack  of  typhoid  fever,  pro- 
ducing violent  delirium,  to  which  serious  later  results  may  be  traced.  As  soon  as  he  had 
recovered  sufficiently  he  went  abroad  and  spent  three  years  in  study  and  travel.  With 
characteristic  thoroughness,  he  devoted  himself  to  the  languages,  and  acquired  fluency  in 


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both  French  and  German.  Returning  to  Cincinnati,  he  entered  upon  the  study  of  the  law,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  practice  in  1870.  At  this  time  his  father,  Alphonso  Taft,  then  on  the 
bench  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Cincinnati,  resigned  to  resume  the  practice  with  his  sons — 
Charles,  of  Yale  '64,  and  Peter — as  A.  Taft  &  Sons.  The  firm  was  a  succesbful  one.  Peter, 
the  youngest  member,  developed  a  remarkable  capacity  for  the  practice  of  the  law,  and  in  the 
next  six  years  demonstrated  that  he  must  soon  become  a  leader  of  the  Bar. 

Taft's  devotion  to  business  and  legal  study  grew  unnatural  in  its  intensity  until  it  became 
evident  that  his  mind  was  seriously  affected.  Finally  he  broke  down  and  gave  up  the  prac- 
tice altogether.  As  is  not  unusual  in  such  cases,  he  withdrew  from  all  intercourse  with 
society  and  lived  the  life  of  a  recluse  until  his  mind,  intensely  active  and  restless,  wore  out 
his  body,  and  he  died  of  consumption  on  June  3rd,  1889,  at  the  age  of  44. 

He  married  Anne  Matilda  Hulbert,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  December  28th,  1876. 

CHILDREN. 

Hulbert.  born  September  20th.  1877,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Hulbert  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  High  School.  Cincinnati.  Ohio,  and  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.,  and  entered  the  Class  of  1900  in  the  Fall  of  "96. 

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Valedictorian;  Stand.  3.62,  the  highest  ever  taken  up  to  that  date.  Woolsey  Scholarship 
Freshman  year,  3rd  prize  English  Composition  second  term  Sophomore  and  2nd  prize  third 
term  Sophomore.  2nd  prize  Sophomore  Prize  Debate  Brothers.  Excellence  in  Greek  second 
term  Junior  year.     Phi  Beta  Kappa. 


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JAMES    HAZLETON  TALLMAN. 

James  Hazleton  Tallman,  son  of  Thomas  and  Frances  Maria  (Hazleton)  Tallman, 
was  born  at  Scotland,  Conn.,  June  3rd,  1847. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Josiah  Clark  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton, 
Mass.,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

His  father,  Thomas  Tallman,  was  graduated  from  Yale  with  the  Class  of  ' 2)^  and  from 
the  Yale  Theological  Seminary  with  the  Class  of  1840.  His  father's  early  ancestors  lived  in 
Rhode  Island,  and  were  descended  from  Peter  Tallman,  who  was  General  Solicitor  for  the 
Colony  of  Rhode  Island  in  1661.  Later  ancestors  were  shipbuilders  at  Providence,  and  built 
privateers  and  sloops  of  war  during  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  also  serving  in  the  army  at 
that  time.  His  mother's  early  ancestors  (Hazleton)  were  among  the  first  settlers  of  the 
town  of  Haddam,  Conn.  A  later  ancestor,  Capt.  James  Hazleton,  was  an  officer  in  the  7th 
Regiment  of  the  Colony  and  a  deputy  in  the  General  Assembly,  1779-80. 


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After  graduation  resided  the  first  year  at  Thompson,  Conn.  The  next  year  he  spent  at 
the  Harvard  Law  School.  In  September,  1869,  he  commenced  practicing  the  profession  of 
the  Law  at  Hartford,  Conn.  Was  admitted  to  the  Hartford  County  Bar  October  29th,  1869. 
In  July,  1881,  was  admitted  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  George  W.  Moore  &  Co.,  dealers  in 
Southern  and  Western  securities,  having  special  charge  of  the  examination  of  papers  con- 
nected with  mortgage  loans.  Has  made  two  business  trips  abroad,  one  in  Summer  of  1890, 
and  the  other  in  Fall  and  Winter  of  1890-91.  Most  of  the  time  was  spent  in  Edinburgh  and 
London.  He  was  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  the  West  Middle  School  District  of  the 
city  of  Hartford  for  the  past  ten  years.  This  is  one  of  the  largest  grammar  schools  in  the 
city,  employing  thirty  teachers,  and  has  recently  erected,  under  his  supervision,  the  finest 
kindergarten  building  in  the  State. 

Was  married  to  Alice  Elizabeth  Graves,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  October  30th,  1873. 

CHILDREN. 

Grace,  born  February  20th,  1875,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Alice  Parker,  born  November  23rd,  1877,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Marion,  born  August  7th,  1881,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Grace  attended  the  Public  Schools  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  was  also  a  student  at  Brad- 
ford Academy,  Bradford,  Mass.,  during  the  years  1893-94.  She  was  married  at  Hartford. 
Conn.,  to  Edgar  Brainerd  Burr,  of  the  same  city,  October  12th,  1898. 

Alice  Parker  attended  the  public  schools  of  Hartford,  and  also  the  Beacon  School,  in 
the  same  city,  during  the  years  1895-96. 

Marion  is  attending  the  Hartford  High  School. 

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WILLIAM     THOMSEN. 

William  Thomsen,  son  of  Laurence  and  Emily  Jane  (Jones)  Thomsen,  was  born  at 
Baltimore,  Md.,  June  20th,  1846. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Messrs.  Topping  and  Casey  at  Baltimore,  Md.,  and 
entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

His  father  was  a  merchant. 

Since  graduation  has  been  in  the  wholesale  liquor  establishment  of  Laurence  Thomsen  & 
Co.  at  Baltimore,  Md.  He  was  admitted  to  the  firm  January,  1881,  and  in  1889  became  the 
senior  member.  Is  Warden  of  Grace  Episcopal  Church,  one  of  the  oldest  Episcopal  churches 
in   Baltimore. 

Was  married  to  Lena  O'Brien,  of  Portland,  Me.,  October  17th,  1872. 

CHILDREN. 

Bertha  Leland,  born  January  5th,  1874.  Baltimore,  Md. 
William  Edward,  born  September  20th,   1875,  Baltimore,  Md. 

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Helen,  born  December  26th,  1886,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Bertha  Leland  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Baltimore,  Md. 
William  Edward  graduated  at  the  Baltimore  City  College  in  1893;  is  now  employed  in 
the  Baltimore  City  Water  Department. 
Helen  attends  school  at  home. 

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EDGAR  ABEL  TURRELL. 


Edgar  Abel  Turrell,  son  of  Abel  and  Adelia  (Catlin)  Turrell,  was  born  at  Montrose, 
Pa.,  August  5th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  Montrose  Academy,  Pa.,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in 
the  Fall  of  1863. 

His  father,  Abel  Turrell,  led  a  general  business  life  at  Montrose,  Pa.,  having  been  succes- 
sively teacher,  editor,  druggist  and  merchant,  and  later  was  engaged  in  banking,  real  estate 
investments  and  farming. 

Abel  Turrell  was  the  son  of  Leman  Turrell,  a  native  of  New  Milford,  Litchfield  County, 
Conn.,  and  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  and  land  surveyors  of  Susquehanna  County,  Pa.  He 
was  a  descendant  of  Roger  Turrell,  one  of  the  founders  of  Milford,  Conn.,  in  1639,  and  a 
native  of  Sussex  County,  England,  through  his  son  Daniel,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Fitch.  Daniel 
was  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  town  of  NewMilford,  in  Litchfield  County,  by  purchase  from 

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the  Indians  in  1706.  His  wife  was  the  niece  of  the  wife  of  Rector  Pierson,  first  President 
of  Yale,  and  aunt  of  Governor  Thomas  Fitch,  who  drafted  the  first  charter  of  Yale  College 
in  1745- 

His  mother,  Adelia  Catlin,  was  the  daughter  of  Erastus  Catlin,  a  native  of  Litchfield 
County,  Conn.,  and  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Susquehanna,  Pa.  He  was  the  grandson  of 
John  Catlin  and  Margaret  Seymour,  of  Litchfield  County,  Conn.  John  was  the  son  of  Thomas 
Catlin,  who  settled  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  about  1642.  Margaret  Seymour  w^as  a  sister  of  Moses 
Seymour,  of  Litchfield  County,  and  a  granddaughter  of  John  Webster,  of  Hartford,  fifth 
Governor  of  the  Connecticut  Colony. 

Entered  Colimibia  College  Law  School,  October,  1867,  and  graduated  in  May,  1869.  En- 
tered Heidelberg  University,  Germany,  Law  Department,  in  October,  1869 ;  left  in  March, 
1870.  Was  in  Europe  during  the  "Triennial."  Spent  the  winter  of  1870-71  in  Rome.  In 
May.  1871,  returned  to  America,  remaining  at  his  home  in  Montrose,  Pa.,  till  January,  1872; 
then  took  up  his  abode  in  New  York  City,  and  began  the  practice  of  Law,  where  he  has  since 
resided. 

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Brothers,  "Sigma  Eps,"  D.  K.  E.  and  Spade  and  Grave.  Honorary  Wolf's  Head  1892; 
3rd  prize  English  Composition  third  term  Sophomore.     Dissertation,  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 


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BOYD  VINCENT. 


Boyd  Vincent,  son  of  Bethuel  Boyd  and  Sarah  Ann  (Strong)  Vincent,  was  born  in  Erie. 
Pa.,  May  i8th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  Erie  Academy,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer 
of  1863. 

His  father  was  Bethuel  Boyd  Vincent,  of  Erie,  Pa.  He  was  not  a  college  man.  At  his 
death  he  was  by  profession  a  banker.  His  ancestry  on  the  paternal  side  is  French  Huguenot. 
His  ancestors  in  this  country  emigrated  from  the  little  town  of  Soubise,  on  the  west  coast  of 
France,  in  the  closing  years  of  the  17th  century.  His  immediate  ancestors  lived  in  New 
Jersey  and  Pennsylvania. 

On  the  maternal  side  his  ancestry  was  Puritan,  his  mother's  maiden  name  being  Strong. 

His  theological  studies  were  carried  on  at  Berkeley,  where  he  completed  his  course 
in  1871. 

In  the  same  year  Bishop  Kerfoot  ordained  him  to  the  diaconate,  and  he  began  his  ministry 

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as  assistant  to  the  Rev.  J.  F.  Spalding,  then  rector  of  St.  Paul's,  Erie,  and  now  Bishop  of 
Colorado.  The  little  Mission  of  Cross  and  Crown,  connected  with  St.  Paul's,  was  the  field  of 
Vincent's  first  ministerial  work.  He  had  alread}^  done  service  there  as  lay  reader  and  Super- 
intendent of  the  Sunday  School.  In  1872  he  was  advanced  to  the  priesthood  by  Bishop  Kerfoot 
in  St.  Paul's  Church. 

In  1874  Calvary  Church.  Pittsburg,  was  without  a  rector.  The  parish  was  in  a  critical 
condition.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Wilson,  its  former  rector,  a  man  of  unquestioned  ability,  earnest- 
ness and  devotion,  respected  and  beloved  by  all  the  congregatioift  had  felt  it  his  duty  to  with- 
draw from  the  ministrj'  of  the  Church,  and  to  give  his  strength  and  himself  to  the  new  move- 
ment (for  which  great  things  were  then  hoped),  which  was  led  by  Bishop  Cummins.  Mr. 
Wilson  had  resigned  his  rectorship  and  organized  a  Reformed  Episcopal  congregation  made 
up  of  his  followers  from  the  Parish  Church.  They  had  built  a  little  meeting  house,  a  stone's 
throw  from  Calvary.     Everything  was  in  deplorable  confusion. 

It  was  at  this  juncture  that  Bishop  Kerfoot  told  the  Calvary  vestrv  that  the  man  they 
needed  lived  in  Erie,  and  that  his  name  was  Vincent.  The  vestry  followed  the  Bishop's 
advice,  and  Vincent  accepted  the  forlorn  rectorship.  At  once  things  began  to  change.  Separ- 
ation ceased,  people  began  to  come  back  and  get  in  their  old  places.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Wilson  was 
called  to  a  new  field  and  accepted  the  call,  and  not  long  after  the  little  Reformed  Episcopal 
Church  had  three  or  four  partitions  put  across  it  and  was  turned  into  a  tenement  house. 

Mr.  Vincent  was  rector  of  Calvary  for  fourteen  years.  They  were  years  of  steady 
growth,  unbroken  harmony  and  prosperity.  When  the  rector  was  called  to  the  episcopate 
the  Church  had  615  communicants.  It  included  three  missions,  one  of  which,  two  miles  away 
from  the  Parish  Church,  was  holding  full  independent  service,  with  a  communicant  list  of  100 
names,  the  other  two  having  since  become  self-supporting  parishes.  The  rector  was  aided  by 
two  assistants.  The  parish  was  thoroughly  organized  for  work.  The  Parish  Guild  had 
between  three  and  four  hundred  members.  There  were  between  seven  and  eight  hundred 
children  in  the  Sunday  schools.  The  little  broken  parish  had  grown  under  wise  leadership  to 
be  the  foremost  parish  in  the  Diocese  in  zeal,  in  numbers  and  in  good  works. 

Mr.  Vincent  declined  several  calls  during  his  rectorship,  notably  one  to  St.  Luke's, 
Germantown,  as  successor  to  Dr.  Vibhert,  and  another  to  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer,  Brook- 
lyn, as  successor  to  his  friend.  Dr.  Leonard,  now  Bishop  of  Ohio.  He  was  twice  elected 
Deputy  to  the  General  Convention,  in  1883  and  in  1886.  He  was  elected  Assistant  Bishop  of 
Southern  Ohio  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  1889  and  was  consecrated  in  St.  Paul's 
Church.  Cincinnati.  O.,  on  St.  Paul's  Day,  1889. 

Bishop  Vincent  has  the  gift  of  attracting  people's  affection.  He  has  always  especially  ap- 
proved himself  to  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  men  as  a  strong,  clear-headed,  sensible  man. 

COI.IECE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    R.^NK. 

Brothers,  Gamma  Nu.  D.  K.  E.  and  Scroll  and  Key;  2nd  prize  Declamation  third  term 
Sophomore;  2nd  prize  Brothers  Prize  Debate.  Senior  year.  Townsend.  Dissertation,  Phi 
Beta  Kappa. 

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CHARLES  SWAN   WALKER. 


Charles  Swan  Walker,  son  of  Samuel  Swan  and  Harriet  (Fowles)  Walker,  was  born 
at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  October  7th,  1846. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  Albion.  Ohio,  under  Joel  Whiting,  and  entered  College  in 
the  Class  of  '67,  coming  from  Marietta  College  in  the  Fall  of  '65  (Junior  year),  having  been 
at  that  College  Freshman  and  Sophomore  years. 

Samuel  .Swan  Walker,  M.  D.,  his  father,  was  born  February  17th,  1806,  and  died  May 
15th  1848.  He  attended  Miami  University,  at  Oxford,  Ohio,  and  graduated  from  the  Ohio 
Medical  College  at  Cincinnati.  He  practiced  medicine  for  a  number  of  years,  but  finally  gave 
up  his  profession.  After  teaching  and  lecturing  upon  scientific  subjects  he  devoted  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life  to  art  and  became  a  portrait  and  landscape  painter  of  reputation. 

His  ancestry  is  traced  back  to  Isaac  Walker,  of  Woburn,  Mass.,  born  September  ist, 
1677,  who  was  descended  from  Captain  Richard  Walker,  a  first  settler  of  Lynn,  Mass,  1630. 

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Walker's  Pond,  in  Conwaj,  N.  H.,  was  named  from  Timothy  Walker,  who  built  mills  on  its 
shore.  His  grandson,  James  Walker,  emigrated  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  1801,  and  to  him  was 
born,  in  Butler  County,  Ohio,  our  classmate's  father.  Samuel  S.  Walker. 

His  mother's  name  was  Harriet  Fowles,  born  in  Sandgate,  Vt.  She  went  to  Ohio  to  teach 
school,  and  there  married  Dr.  Walker,  his  father.  She  was  descended  from  Lewis  Fowles, 
a  Hessian,  who  deserted  from  the  Britsh  Army  in  Boston  and  became  an  interpreter  for 
General  Washington. 

Since  graduation  he  studied  Theology  at  Yale  and  Andover,  Mass.,  graduating  from  Yale 
Theological  Seminary  in  1870.  Was  ordained  Pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Darien, 
Conn.,  in  1871 ;  organized  the  First  Congregational  Church  in  the  State  of  West  Virginia 
in  1872  at  Huntington;  was  Principal  of  Prospect  Park  Seminary,  Brooklyn.  N.  Y.,  in  1874; 
Acting  Pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Holyoke,  Mass.,  in  1875 ;  Acting  Pastor  of  the 
Congregational  Church  of  South  Amherst,  Mass.,  at  the  time  of  the  publication  of  the  last 
report. 

In  1885  he  received  the  degree  of  Ph.  D.  from  Amherst  College,  and  in  1886  was  chosen 
Professor  of  Mental  and  Political  Science  in  the  Massachusetts  Agricultural  College. 

The  past  ten  years  have  been  spent  at  Amherst,  Mass.,  busily  employed  as  Professor  of 
Political  Science.  Secretary  of  the  Faculty  and  Chaplain  of  the  College  at  the  Massachusetts 
Agricultural  College. 

Was  married  to  Alice  M.  Moorehouse,  of  Darien.  Conn.,  September  15th,  1873. 

CHILDREN. 

Claude  Frederic,  born  December  27th,  1874,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

Charles  M.,  born  March  13th,  1879.  Holyoke,  Mass. 

Claude  Frederic  graduated  from  Massachusetts  Agricultural  College  and  Boston  Univer- 
sity in  1894.  and  received  his  Ph.  D.  from  Yale  in  1897.  Is  now  in  the  Kent  Chemical  Labora- 
tory at  Yale.     He  is  probably  the  youngest  Doctor  of  Philosophy  ever  graduated  from  Yale. 

Charles  M.  is  Junior  in  the  Massachusetts  Agricultural  College,  preparing  for  a  course  of 
music  at  Yale. 

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*HENRY  WEYMAN  WALKER. 

*Henry  Weyman  Walker,  son  of  George  L.  and  Isabella  (Weyman)  Walker,  was  born 
in  New  York  City,  March  20th,  1845,  and  died  of  apoplexy,  August  i6th,  1876,  aged  31  years. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Geo.  S.  Parker  in  New  York  City,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

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He  was  a  member  of  Brothers,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Delta  Beta  Chi,  D.  K.  E.  and  Spade  and 
Grave. 


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ALBERT     WARREN. 

Albert  Warren,  son  of  Charles  W.  and  Jane  (White)  Warren,  was  born  at  Leicester, 
Mass.,  February  14th,  1844. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  under  Dr.  S.  H.  Tay- 
lor, and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

The  Warren  family  was  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  the  town  of  Leicester,  Mass.,  where 
many  of  the  descendants  still  reside.  The  original  homestead  is  still  in  the  family.  The 
family  probably  came  from  England,  and  it  is  supposed  that  his  great-grandfather  was  a  sec- 
ond cousin  of  General  Joseph  Warren,  of  Bunker  Hill  fame.  His  grandfather  on  his  mother's 
side  was  a  descendant  of  John  Alden  and  Priscilla  Mullins-Alden-Bass-Henshaw- 
Wheeler-Warren.  Little  is  known  of  his  mother's  ancestry,  except  that  they  came  from  the 
eastern  part  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts  in  the  early  history  of  the  town  of  Leicester.  Our 
classmate's  father  and  mother  are  both  alive,  having  been  married  nearly  55  years. 


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Since  graduation  has  taught  at  Ripon,  Wis.,  and  Spencer,  Mass.  In  the  Fall  of  the  year 
1877  he  removed  to  Grafton,  Mass.,  where  he  taught  until  1879.  In  the  Fall  of  that  year  he 
removed  to  New  Haven,  Conn.,  for  the  purpose  of  taking  a  course  in  the  Yale  Theological 
Seminary.  He  graduated  from  the  Seminary,  May  i8th,  1882.  The  same  year  he  removed 
to  Mankato,  Minn.,  in  the  employ  of  the  A.  H.  M.  Society.  In  1883  he  removed  further 
toward  the  frontier  to  Lake  Benton,  Lincoln  County,  Minn.,  ten  miles  from  the  Dakota  line. 
Was  in  charge  of  the  Home  Mission  Church  there  until  November  of  the  year  1885.  Since 
that  period  he  has  not  been  regularly  engaged  in  ministerial  work;  he  writes  that  with  his 
sons  he  is  engaged  in  stock  raising.  The  Class-boy,  he  says,  is  man  grown,  weighs  160 
pounds,  is  five  feet  eleven  and  one-half  inches,  and  he  styles  him  a  "husky"  fellow. 

He  writes  in  the  Spring  of  1897 : 

"  No  business  changes.  My  son.  Walter  C,  and  I  are  still  engaged  in  stock  rasing.  In 
'90  I  became  interested  in  politics,  ana  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Alliance  party,  which 
was  purely  a  local  party.  I  was  made  secretary  of  the  Campaign  Committee,  and  conducted 
the  first  and  only  campaign  of  that  party.  On  the  organization  of  the  People's  Party  the 
Alliance  Party  went  to  pieces,  the  larger  part  of  it  going  into  the  People's  Party.  I  re- 
turned to  the  Republican  party." 

He  was  married  to  Angelica  E.  Hastings  at  Millbury,  Mass.,  December  24th,  1867.  His 
firstborn  was  the  Class-boy  of  '67,  receiving  the  Silver  Cup  at  Triennial. 

CHILDREN. 

Walter  Chester,  born  October  26th,  1868.  Millbury,  Mass. 

Emily  Myrtle,  born  December  5th.  1873,  Spencer,  Mass.  * 

His  children  received  their  education  in  the  common  schools. 

Walter  went  for  a  few  weeks  to  Carlton  College,  and  is  now  in  business  with  his  father. 
He  married  Emma  E.  Keffer,  daughter  of  Simon  B.  and  Rebecca  Keflfer  at  Des  M.oines,  Iowa, 
November  26th,  1891,  and  has  three  children. 

CHILDREN. 

Chester  Albert,  born  November  8th,  1892,  Lake  Benton,  Minn. 

Llewellyn  Everard,  born  October  3d,  1893,  Lake  Benton,  Minn. 

Ruth,  born  June  14,  1897,  Lake  Benton,  Minn. 

Emily  M.  took  a  course  of  music  at  Carlton  College.  She  married  Henry  A.  Gould,  son 
of  Robert  C.  and  Mary  C.  Gould,  September  19th,  1896,  and  lives  at  Millbury,  Mass.  She  has 
one  child,  Ethel  Lois,  born  September  14th,  1897. 

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HOMER    WESTON. 

Homer  Weston,  son  of  Joseph  and  Marianna  (Savage)  Weston,  was  born  at  Wethers- 
field,  Vt.,  October  4th,  1841. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Messrs.  Dean  and  Flanders  at  Springfield,  Vt. 

Both  of  his  parents  were  natives  of  New  England  of  Puritan  stock. 

He  passed  Freshman  and  Sophomore  years  at  Wesleyan  University,  Middletown,  Conn, 
and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  the  beginning  of  2nd  term  Junior  year. 

Since  graduation  has  studied  Law  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  La  Crosse,  Wis.,  and  Ascutneyville, 
Vt.  From  Ascutneyville  he  removed  to  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  in  1875,  where  he  has  continued  to 
reside  ever  since,  pursuing  the  profession  of  the  law. 

He  was  married  to  Emma  O.  Harrington,  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.,  May  15,  1868. 

CHILDREN. 

Nina,  born  May  19th,  1869,  Ascutneyville,  Vt. 


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Waldo,  born  September  6th,  1871,  Ascutneyville,  Vl. 

Alice,  born  February  2d,  1875,  Ascutneyville,  Vt. 

Nina  graduated  from  Syracuse  University  and  has  been  taking  advanced  instruction  in 
Music  and  was  appointed  Musical  Director  in  the  Genesee   (Wisconsin)    Seminary. 

Waldo  studied  at  Syracuse  University,  and  has  been  with  his  father  in  his  law  office  at 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  for  a  year  or  so.    He  entered  the  Albany  Law  School  in  the  Fall  of  1898. 

Alice  was  two  years  in  Syracuse  University,  two  years  at  the  Art  Students'  League,  N. 
Y.  City,  and  is  at  present  studying  in  Berlin,  Germany.  She  has  been  taking  advanced  instruc- 
tion in  painting. 

Both  daughters  will  travel  and  spend  a  portion  of  the  following  year  in  Paris. 

All  his  children  have  had  a  thorough  education  in  the  general  branches,  together  with 
taking  up  their  special  work  afterwards. 

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GEORGE  PEABODV  WETMORE. 

George  Peabody  Wetmore,  son  of  William  Shepard  and  Custiss  Derby  (Rogers)  Wet- 
more,  was  born  in  London,  England,  August  2nd,  1846. 

He  fitted  for  College  under  John  William  Payne,  at  New  York  City,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63. 

His  father  was  not  a  college  graduate.  After  leaving  school  he  went  into  the  mercantile 
house  of  Carrington,  Hoppin  &  Co.,  of  Providence.  R.  I.,  in  which  firm  two  of  his  uncles  were 
partners,  before  becoming  a  merchant  on  his  own  account  in  South  America,  China  and  finally 
New  York  City. 

His  wife's  lather,  Eugene  Keteltas,  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1822,  Yale  College. 
Owing  to  some  misunderstanding  with  the  Faculty,  he  left  Yale  and  was  graduated  at  Union 
College,  Class  of  1822.  Yale  gave  him  the  honorary  degree  of  A.  M.  in  1870.  His  father, 
Philip  D.,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1792,  and  his  grandfather,  Rev.  Abraham,  graduated  in 
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His  ancestors  on  his  father's  side  were  the  original  patentees  of  Middletown,  Ct.  His 
mother's  ancestors  were  from  Massachusetts,  and  descended  from  the  Rogers,  Pinkmans,  and 
other  well  known  families. 

He  received  the  degree  of  ]\I.  A.  from  Yale  in  1871.  Studied  law  at  Columbia  College  Law- 
School,  and  was  graduated  in  1869,  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  He  then  traveled  ex- 
tensively both  in  the  United  States  and  abroad,  visiting  the  noted  battle  fields  of  the  Civil  War. 
Was  admitted  to  the  Bar  of  Rhode  Island  and  of  New  York  in  1869,  was  made  Trustee  of  the 
Peabody  Museum  of  Natural  History  in  Yale  University.  Visited  Europe  in  April,  1877, 
staying  there  until  June,  1877,  and  again  from  May,  1878,  until  December,  1879,  and  also  for  a 
short  time  in  1882.  Was  Presidential  Elector  at  large  for  the  State  of  Rhode  Island  in 
1880  and  1884.  In  1881  was  appointed  by  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  Rhode  Island,  under  a 
resolution  of  the  General  Assembly  of  that  State,  one  of  the  Commissioners  to  receive  the 
Delegates  of  France  on  the  occasion  of  their  visit  to  the  State  of  Rhode  Island  to  attend  the 
Yorktown  celebration  in  1881.  Was  absent  a  short  time  in  Europe  in  1881.  In  April,  1885, 
he  was  elected  Governor  of  Rhode  Island,  and  again  in  1886.  Was  a  candidate  for  the  same 
position  in  1887,  but  was  defeated,  though  he  received  a  greater  number  of  votes  than  at  either 
of  the  two  preceding  elections  when  successful.  In  1888  was  nominated  a  Fellow  of  Yale 
University,  but  declined.  In  1889  he  ran  for  United  States  Senator,  but  was  defeated  on  the 
eighth  ballot.  On  June  13.  1894,  was  elected  to  the  United  States  Senate  to  succeed  Nathan 
F.  Dixon,  receiving  a  unanimous  vote  from  the  General  Assembly  in  Senate  and  House  and 
Joint  Assembly.  Is  now  a  Trustee  of  the  Peabody  Educational  Fund,  President  of  the  New- 
port Hospital,  Chairman  on  the  Library  Committee  of  the  Congressional  Library,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  and  a  director  in  many  other  associations. 

He  was  married  to  Edith  M.  Keteltas,  December  22d,  1869.  at  n  St.  Mark's  Place,  New 
York  City. 

CHILDREN. 

Edith  Malvina  Keteltas,  born  September  23d.  1870,  Geneva,  Switzerland. 

Maude  Alice  Keteltas,  born  February  7th,  1873,  Paris.  France. 

William  Shepard  Keteltas,  born  April  i6th,  1875,  New  York  City. 

Rogers  P.  Derby  Keteltas,  born  March  13th,  1882,  Paris,  France. 

His  daughters  have  been  educated  in  private  schools  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  and  have  traveled 
abroad. 

William  Shepard  Keteltas  fitted  for  Yale  at  Eton  College,  Rugby,  and  graduated  in  the 
class  of  '97. 

Rogers  P.  D.  Keteltas  is  now  a  member  of  Yale  College. 

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ISAAC  JOCELYN  WILD. 

Isaac  Jocelyn  Wild,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Atwater  Plant  (Jocelyn)  Wild,  was  born  at 
Stockport,  N.  Y.,  August  25th,  1842. 

He  was  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Willabe  Haskel  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  en- 
tered the  class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

His  father  was  a  cotton  cloth  manufacturer.  His  paternal  grandfather  was  an  Englishman 
and  built  the  first  cotton  factory  in  Stockport,  Columbia  County,  N.  Y..  in  the  year  1813.  He 
made  the  first  cotton  and  wool  mixed  cloth  in  this  country,  called  muslin  de  laine. 

His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Capt.  Samuel  Plant  Jocelyn.  She  was  born,  lived  and 
died,  on  the  same  spot  in  York  street,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  which  has  been  the  home  of  her 
ancestors  for  generations,  nearly  200  years  or  more. 

Since  graduation  (from  1867-68)  he  was  cashier  of  the  United  States  Tea  Company, 
New  York  City.  From  1868  to  1869  clerk  in  a  Baltimore  Packing  House.  From  1872  to  date 
was  connected  with  the  New  Haven  Gas  Co.  and  has  been  treasurer  of  the  same  since  1887. 


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Was  married  to  Sarah  E.  Goodyear,  July  3,  1878,  at  Hamden,  Conn.     She  died  Oct.  II, 
1882,  at  New  Haven,  Conn. 

CHILDREN. 

Joseph  Goodyear,  born  May  17th,  1879,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Jocelyn  Plant,  born  September  28th,  1882.  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Both  the  boys  attended  the  public  schools  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Joseph  entered  the  Yale  Scientific  School  in  the  Fall  of  1898,  in  the  Class  of  igor. 

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FRANCIS  HENRY  WILSON. 

Francis  Henry  Wilson,  son  of  Clark  and  Harriet  (Halbert)  Wilson,  was  born  at  West- 
moreland, N.  Y.,  February  nth,  1843. 

He  fitted  for  college  under  Rev.  Benjamin  W.  Dwight,  at  Clinton,  N.  Y.,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

During  his  first  ten  years  he  lived  at  Utica,  N.  Y.,  and  then  removed,  with  his  parents, 
to  Westmoreland  farm,  where  he  attended  the  district  school  for  several  years.  After  grad- 
uating, he  taught  the  classics  at  Dr.  Holbrook's  Military  Academy  at  Sing  Sing,  N.  Y.  For 
the  next  four  years  he  was  associated  with  his  brother  of  the  Class  of  '65.  Yale,  in  the  owner- 
ship and  management  of  Wilson's  Grammar  School,  Rochester,  N.  Y.  He  came  to  New 
York  City  in  the  year  1873.  Studied  law  under  Theodore  W.  Dwight,  and  graduated  from 
Columbia  Law  School  in  1875.  He  then  began  the  practice  of  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  E.  L. 
Fancher,  at  229  Broadway,  New  York  City,  and  soon  opened  an  office  of  his  own.     Took  a 


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prominent  part  in  the  organization  of  the  Union  League  Club  of  Brooklyn,  of  which  organi- 
zation he  was  President  for  four  successive  years ;  was  chairman  of  the  Kings  County  Cam- 
paign Committee  in  the  Campaign  of  1892.  Was  elected  to  the  Fifty-fourth  Congress  as  a 
Republican,  receiving  18,568  votes,  against  14,215  votes  for  James  A.  Murtha,  Jr.,  Democrat, 
and  3,741  votes  for  Steven  Perry  Sturgess,  Reform  Democrat. 

The  same  district  was  carried  at  the  prior  Congressional  election  by  Mr.  Joseph  C. 
Hendrix,  over  the  Republican  candidate  by  a  majority  of  5,700.  He  was  re-elected;  he  was 
also  member  of  the  House  Naval  Committee.  He  traveled  in  England,  France  and  Ireland 
in  the  Summer  of  i8go  and  was  in  London  on  business  in  October,  1895.  His  law  firm  is  lo- 
cated in  Temple  Court,  New  York;  he  took  in  as  a  partner  Hon.  James  L.  Bennett,  January 
1st,  1895,  and  Walter  Underbill,  Esq.,  January  ist,  1897. 

In  September,  1897,  he  was  appointed  by  President  McKinley  Postmaster  of  Brooklyn, 
Kings  County,  N.  Y. 

Was  married  to  Emily  F.  Smith,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  December  27th,  1869.  She  died 
April   T4th,   1872. 

CHILDREN. 

Bertha,  born  September  21st,  1871,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

He  married  on  June  5th,  1879,  Annie  E.  Palmer,  of  New  York  City. 

CHILDREN. 

Florence,  born  May  8th.  1880,  New  York  City,  N.  Y. 

Ethel,  born  August  24th,  1882,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  died  May  9th.  1883,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Helen,  born  August  23d,   1884,  New  York  City,  N.  Y. 

Palmer,  born  August  4th,  1886,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  died  July  17th,  1888,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Gertrude,  born  June  22d,  1888,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Alice,  born  January  12th,  1891,  Brooklyn.  N.  Y. ;  died  May  29th,  1893,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Florence,  Helen  and  Gertrude  attended  schools  in  Washington,  D.  C,  while  their  father 
was  a  Member  of  Congress.    They  are  now  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y..  attending  school  there, 

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RICHARD  WILLIAM  WOODWARD. 

Richard  William  Woodward,  son  of  Dr.  Ashbel  and  Emeline  (Bicknell)  Woodward, 
was  born  at  Franklin,  Conn.,  December  8th,  1846. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  P.  H.  Woodward  at  Franklin,  Conn.,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  1863. 

His  father,  Ashbel  Woodward,  was  born  in  Willington,  Conn.,  June  26,  1804,  and  grad- 
uated from  the  Medical  Department  of  Dartmouth  College  in  May,  1829,  and  settled  in  Frank- 
lin two  months  later,  where  he  continued  to  reside  till  his  death,  December  20th,  1885.  As  a 
physician  Dr.  Woodward  was  noted  for  quickness  and  accuracy  of  perception.  In  the  sick 
room  nothing  escaped  his  attention,  and  he  was  especially  successful  in  desperate  cases.  The 
estimation  in  which  he  was  held  by  his  professional  brethren  is  shown  in  the  trusts  confided  to 
him  and  the  distinctions  conferred  upon  him.  He  had  a  great  fondness  for  local,  historical, 
and  especially  for  genealogical  investigations.    His  knowledge  of  the  lineages  of  old  New  Eng- 


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land  families  was  extensive  and  at  instant  command.  His  writings  on  this  class  of  subjects 
are  to  be  found  in  the  "New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Magazine,"  and  in  other 
publications.  He  was  the  author  of  a  life  of  Gen.  Nathaniel  Lyon;  a  memoir  of  Col.  Thomas 
Knowlton,  who  commanded  behind  the  famous  "rail  fence"  at  Bunker  Hill ;  a  small  volume  on 
Wampum ;  a  history  of  Franklin,  Conn.,  and  of  many  addresses  and  articles  on  professional 
subjects.  His  wife,  Emeline  Bicknell,  was  born  in  Ashford,  Conn.,  Nov.  7,  1807,  and  died  in 
Franklin,  Conn.,  March  i6th,  1897. 

Richard  William  Woodward  is  the  eighth  in  descent  from  Richard  Woodward,  who  em- 
barked on  the  ship  "Elizabeth"  at  Ipswich.  England,  April  loth,  1634.  and  whose  name  is  on 
the  earliest  list  of  proprietors  of  Watertown,  Mass.     The  Woodward  genealogy  is  given  in 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  laboratories  of  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  Sep- 
tember, 1868.  Two  years  later  he  went  to  Europe,  where  he  studied  for  two  years  dt  the  Uni- 
versity of  Heidelberg  and  at  the  Royal  Prussian  School  of  Mines.  In  the  Fall  of  1873  he 
was  appointed  chemist  to  the  United  States  Geological  Survey  of  the  Fortieth  Parallel  and 
had  entire  charge  of  the  chemical  work  of  that  survey.  His  researches  are  to  be  found  in  the 
volumes  of  the  Survey  published  by  the  United  States  War  Department.  He  resigned  in  the 
Summer  of  1876  and  went  to  the  then  new  mining  region  of  the  San  Juan  in  Colorado,  mak- 
ing his  headquarters  at  Lake  City.  In  1878  he  removed  to  Ouray  County,  to  take  charge  of  the 
Windham  Silver  Mining  and  Smelting  Company,  and  founded  the  town  of  Windham.  This 
town  was  at  that  time  200  miles  from  the  nearest  railroad  point,  and  located  upon  land  claimed 
by  the  Ute  Indians,  and  trouble  with  these  Indians  was  of  frequent  occurrence.  Sometimes  it 
became  necessary  to  barricade  the  works  at  Windham  and  to  arm  the  workmen. 

He  was  married  March  5th,  1878,  to  Sarah  Cazneau  Day,  daughter  of  Horace  Day  (Yale, 
1836),  of  New  Haven.  She  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Robert  Day,  a  fellow  passenger  with 
Richard  Woodward  on  the  ship  "Elizabeth"  from  Ipswich,  England,  April  loth,'  1634.  Robert 
Day  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  the  ancestors  of  President  Jeremiah 
Day,  of  Yale  College. 

CHILDREN. 

Henrietta  Emeline,  born  September  20th,  1879,  Ouray,  Colo. ;  died  December  i4tb,  1879, 
Ouray,  Colo. 

Mr.  Woodward  left  Ouray  in  the  Fall  of  1881  and  spent  the  Winter  in  the  vicinity  of 
Leadville.  Colo.  In  the  Spring  of  1882  he  went  to  Pueblo.  Colo.,  as  chemist  to  the  Colorado 
Coal  and  Iron  Company  and  remained  there  two  years.  In  1884  he  returned  to  Connecticut, 
where  he  has  since  resided,  and  has  been  continuously  employed  as  a  scientific  expert  in  the 
development  of  electrical  manufactures.  His  permanent  address  is  Franklin,  Conn.,  and  cor- 
respondence should  be  directed  to  that  place. 

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Brothers,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Delta  Beta  Chi.  D.  K.  E.  and  Skull  and  Bones,  First  Prize  English 
Composition  second  and  third  terms  Sophomore  year.    Townsend.     Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Oration. 

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♦GEORGE  LATHROP  WRIGHT.  j.^ 

♦George  Lathrop  Wright,  son  of  Chauncey  and  Mary  (Locke)  Wright,  was  born  at 
Moravia,  N.  Y.,  April  23d,  1843,  and  died  November  7th,  1897,  at  Auburn,  N.  Y. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Rev.  M.  Conant  at  the  Moravia  Institute,  N.  Y.,  and 
entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

His  father's  family  originally  came  from  Massachusetts,  near  Boston.  His  mother's 
family,  the  Lockes,  came  from  Deerfield,  Conn. 

After  graduation  taught  four  years,  1867-71,  in  Morristown,  N.  J.  During  the  Spring  of 
1873  he  went  into  the  insurance  business  as  agent  for  the  Connecticut  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company,  residing  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.  In  the  Spring  of  1876  he  left  the  Connecticut  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company,  and  in  the  Fall  of  1878  he  organized  the  Mississippi  Valley  Company 
in  the  interest  of  the  improvement  of  the  western  water  ways.  There  were  100  boards  of 
trade  representing  this  organization,  from  Omaha  to  Pittsburg,  and  from  St.  Louis  to  New 
Orleans. 


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Those  boards  of  trade  selected  a  committee  for  the  improvement  of  the  Western  water 
ways,  of  which  he  was  Secretary.  They  called  together  a  great  convention  in  1879  at  Quincy, 
111.  A  memorial  of  that  convention  was  compiled  for  presentation  to  the  Congress  of  the 
United  States. 

In  1881  they  organized  a  great  convention  at  St.  Louis,  of  which  he  was  Secretary,  and 
for  which  he  wrote  a  memorial  to  Congress,  and  he  presented  the  arguments  to  the  Commit- 
tee on  Rivers  and  Harbors. 

In  1884  they  held  another  great  convention  at  Washington,  of  which  he  was  Secretary, 
and  in  which  he  again  presented  the  action  of  the  convention  to  Congress,  and  obtained  nearly 
$8,000,000  for  the  Mississippi  River  alone. 

In  1885  they  had  another  great  convention  at  New  Orleans,  of  which  he  was  Secretary, 
and  he  also  presented  a  memorial  to  Congress,  and  made  the  arguments  on  behalf  of  the 
river  improvement  and  got  a  large  appropriation. 

In  the  Fall  of  1885  he  took  up  the  subject  of  electricity  for  propelling  machinery,  and  or- 
ganized a  company  for  that  purpose ;  was  made  first  general  manager,  and  in  November,  1886, 
was  elected  President  of  the  company. 

'n  1894  failing  health  caused  him  to  relinquish  this  and  all  other  business,  since  which 
time  till  his  death  he  resided  in  Auburn,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  April  22d,  1874,  to  Miss  Florence  Guier  Scott,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo. 


Eliza  May,  born  March  27th,  1875.  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Geo.  L.,  Jr.,  born  May  23d,  1876,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  died  July  10,  1877,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Guier  Scott,  born  July  31st,   1891,  New  York  City,  N.  Y. 

The  eldest  child  attended  Miss  C.  Aiken's  School  at  Stamford,  Conn.,  where  she  grad- 
uated in  1892,  and  is  now  assistant  principal  of  the  Bryn  Mawr  College  Preparatory  School  of 
the  Misses  Shipley  in  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

Our  classmate  died  November  7th,  1897,  from  nervous  prostration. 

The  "Republican,"  an  Auburn  paper,  speaks  of  him  as  follows : 

"  Mr.  Wright  was  in  many  respects  a  remarkable  man.  He  was  a  fine  classical  scholar, 
and  had  few  equals  as  a  student  of  history  and  general  literature.  He  was  of  bright,  genial 
disposition,  of  kindly  nature,  lenient  in  his  judgment  of  his  fellow-men,  and  never  too  wearied 
or  too  engrossed  in  business  to  lend  a  helping  hand  when  help  was  needed.  As  a  husband  and 
father  the  sunny  characteristics  of  his  nature  banished  care  and  anxiety,  and  brought  comfort, 
contentment  and  peace  to  his  household.  He  believed  and  trusted  in  God.  Conscious  of  his 
own  demerits,  he  with  confidence  rested  his  interests  in  the  present  and  the  future  in  the 
hands  of  infinite  wisdom  and  love." 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Delta  Beta  Chi,  D.  K.  E.  and  Spade  and  Grave,  Honorary  Wolf's 
Head  1892. 

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"BIOGRAPHIES 

of 

NON  GRADUATES 

CLASS  OF  SIXTY-SEVEN 

YALE 


cf{pte — The  star  (*)  prefixed  to  a.  name  indicates  a  deceased  member 


*  SAMUEL  DYER  ALLEN. 

*  Samuel  Dyer  Allen  was  born  at  Allentown,  R.  I.,  November  26th,  1843.  He  entered 
with  the  Class  of  '66  and  left  during  Sophomore  year.  Entered  with  the  Class  of  '67  in 
Sophomore  year  and  left  in  June,  1866. 

After  leaving  the  Class  he  went  to  Burning  Springs,  W.  Va.,  for  his  health,  where  he 
was  taken  down  with  typhoid  fever  and  died  December  14th,  1866. 

His  was  the  fifth  death  during  our  College  course. 

colli;ge  societies,  honors,  rank. 
Linonia,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Spade  and  Grave. 


WILLIAM  TURNER  BACON. 

William  Turner  Bacon,  son  of  Leonard  Holmes  and  Elizabeth  (Turner)  Bacon,  and 
grandson  of  Rev.  William  W.  Turner  (Yale  College,  1819),  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn., 
August  27th,  1846,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Grammar  School  in  that  city.  He  en- 
tered College  with  '67,  and  remained  with  that  Class  till  the  close  of  Sophomore  year,  and 
joined  '68  in  May,  1866,  graduating  with  that  Class. 

On  his  father's  side  he  is  descended  from  Michael  Bacon,  a  brother  of  Lord  Turner 
Bacon,  who  came  to  Dedham.  Mass. 

On  his  mother's  side  he  is  descended  from  Capt.  Nathaniel  Turner,  who  came  to 
Plymouth  with  Governor  Winthrop  in  1630.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  Pequot  War  in  Con- 
necticut in  1637,  a  magistrate  in  New  Haven  in  1639,  Chief  Military  Officer  of  the  Colony  in 
1640,  and  sailed  for  England  in  the  ''Phantom  Ship"  in  1646. 

After  graduation  he  was  a  student  of  medicine  in  New  York  City,  at  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons,  and  at  the  University  of  the  City  of  New  York.  He  was  for 
twenty  months  on  the  house  staff  of  the  Charity  Hospital,  Blackwell's  Island,  and  was  sub- 
sequently tutor  in  Physiology  and  Histology  in  the  medical  department  of  the  University 
of  the  City  of  New  York,  assistant  surgeon  in  the  New  York  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary,  attending 
physician  at  the  Bureau  of  Outdoor  Relief,  and  assistant  to  Dr.  Janeway  in  the  pathological 
rooms  of  Bellevue  Hospital,  New  York  City. 

Since  October,  1876.  he  has  been  practicing  medicine  in  Hartford,  making  a  specialty  of 
the  eye  and  ear.  His  office  is  at  3  Pratt  street.  He  is  ophthalmic  and  aural  surgeon  to  the 
Hartford  Hospital,  and  a  member  of  the  American  Ophthalmological  Society.    The  following 

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papers  have  been  read  before  different  medical  societies  and  published  in  the  "Transactions  of 
the  Connecticut  Medical  Society":  "Syphilitic  Hypalitis,"  1877;  "Treatment  of  Phlyctenular 
Ophthalmis  by  Stimulation,"  1878;  "A  Case  of  Secondary  Sarcoma  "Causing  Ocular  Paraly- 
sis and  Loss  of  Sight,"  1882 ;  "Glioma  of  Retina,"  1884 ;  "Adenoid  Vegetation,"  1891 ; 
"School  Life  in  Relation  to  the  Eyes,"  1892.  An  article  on  "Color  Blindness"  was  published  in 
the  Report  of  the  Connecticut  Board  of  Health  for  1879. 

He  was  married  in  Hartford,  June  lOth,  1875,  to  Mary  E.  Coit,  of  that  city. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS^  RANK. 

Brothers  in  Unity,  Delta  Beta  Chi  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 


*  AlELZAR  FRANKLIN  BARTLETT. 

*  Melzai:  Franklin  Bartlett,  son  of  David  Bartlett,  was  born  at  New  Guilford,  Conn., 
August  30th,  1847,  and  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63.  He  prepared  for 
college  in  the  Guilford  Institute  under  Henry  L.  Barnum.  He  died  at  New  Haven,  Conn., 
of  congestion  of  the  brain,  January  27th,  1864,  while  pursuing  his  studies  with  the  Class. 

His  was  the  first  death  during  our  College  course.  While  in  College  he  was  a  member  of 
Brothers  in  Unity  and  "Sigma  Eps." 


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FREDERICK  DUDLEY  BENEDICT. 

Frederick  Dudley  Benedict,  son  of  Isaac  N.  and  Emily  A.  (Keeler)  Benedict,  was  born 
at  Wilton,  Conn.,  April  30,  1843. 

He  was  prepared  for  College  at  Wilton  Academy,  under  Edward  Olmstead. 

His  father,  grandfather  and  great  grandfather  on  both  sides  of  the  house  were  tillers  of 
the  soil. 

He  left  the  Class  at  the  beginning  of  the  Junior  year.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  en- 
gaged in  teaching  and  farming.  He  has  filled  quite  a  number  of  local  offices  in  the  town  of 
Wilton  and  is  at  present  serving  as  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature. 

He  was  a  member  of  Brothers. 


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CASPAR  SHROM  BIGLER. 

Casper  Shrom  Bigler.  son  of  Samuel  Shrom  and  Sarah  Findley  (Laird)  Bigler,  was 
born  at  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  June  17th,  1844.  He  prepared  for  Yale  at  his  home,  under  J.  F. 
Seller,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63.  He  left  '67  at  the  end  of  the 
Sophomore  year. 

He  was  engaged  for  a  time  in  the  lumber  and  saw-mill  business.  Afterwards  studied  law, 
was  admitted  to  the  Bar.  and  is  practicing  his  profession  at  his  home  in  Harrisburg. 

He  answers  the  Secretary's  circular  in  his  own  humorous  way,  as  follows : 

Samuel  S.  Bigler,  my  father,  was  not  a  college  man.  Occupation,  lumber  business  and 
owner  of  saw-mills. 

My  mother's  name  was  Sarah  Findley  Laird.  Her  business  was  marrying  my  father. 
Her  success  in  this  business  has  been  regretted  not  only  by  her  descendants,  but  also  by  people 
who  have  known  her  descendants. 


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I  am  now  tracing  my  ancestry  back,  and  have  every  hope  of  being  ehgible  in  a  double 
degree  to  the  highest  place  in  the  new  society  lately  started  in  New  York  called  the  "Order 
of  the  Crown."  One  of  my  ancestors  descended  from  an  English  king.  The  other  from  a 
French  king.  If  the  "Order  of  the  Crown"  recognizes  true  merit  and  pure  lineal  descent,  I 
will  be  elected  king,  and  this,  too,  at  a  less  cost  than  a  seat  in  the  United  States  Senate  could 
be  purchased   for.  ^' 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa  and  Delta  Beta  Chi. 


JOHN  FRANCIS  BISHOP. 

John  Francis  Bishop,  son  of  John  Wallace  Bishop,  was  born  St  New  Haven,  Conn., 
June  loth,  1846.  He  prepared  for  College  at  the  New  Haven  High  School  under  Wm.  Kinne 
and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  July,  1863. 

He  left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  the  Freshman  year.  Was  engaged  for  a  time  in  the  lumber 
business  and  in  various  branches  of  the  iron  manufacture  in  his  native  city.  He  was  a  good 
scholar  while  in  the  Class  and  was  well  liked,  and  gave  promise  of  a  bright  future.  Failing 
health  caused  him  to  leave  the  Class.    He  died  January  12th,  1883,  at  New  Haven,  Conn. 

On  September  ist,  1869,  he  married  Addie  Thomas,  of  New  Haven.  She  died  December, 
6th,  1877. 

children. 

Rill,  born  May  29th,  1781,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Brothers  and  "Sigma  Eps." 


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WILLIAM  GUNTON  BUDINGTON. 


William  Gunton  Budington,  son  of  William  Ives  Budington  (Yale,  1834)  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Gunton)  Budington,  was  born  at  Charlestown,  Mass..  October  28th,  184=;. 

He  fitted  for  College  under  Dr.  James  M.  Whiton  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  and  en- 
tered Yale  in  July,  1863.     He  left  the  Class  June  27th,  1865. 

Since  leaving  the  Class  he  has  traveled  extensively  in  Europe  and  Australia.  For  sev- 
eral years  he  taught  school,  after  which  he  became  a  student  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  in  New  York  City.  He  practiced  in  the  Hospitals  for  some  time  and  then  received 
the  appointment  of  surgeon  on  the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  "Alaska,"  running  between  San 
Francisco,  Japan  and  China.    In  1881  he  finished  his  last  voyage,  making  the  eighth. 

Since  this  period  he  has  traveled  extensively,  passing  his  Winters  in  the  West  Indies. 
He  spends  a  great  deal  of  his  time  at  Dansville,  N.  Y.,  and  has  apartments  at  the  Chelsea,  222 

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West  Twenty-third  street.  New  York  City.    A  few  years  ago  he  spent  some  time  in  Egypt,  vis- 
iting points  of  interest  along  the  Nile  River. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Brothers  and  Delta  Kappa. 


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NATHAN  ALLEN  CHAPMAN. 

Nathan  Allen  Chapman,  son  of  Deacon  Allen  A.  and  Elizabeth  (Chase)  Chapman,  was 
born  at  Baltimore,  Md.,  July  14.  1846.     He  left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  the  Senior  year. 

His  father,  a  merchant  in  Baltimore,  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Robert  Chapman,  who 
settled  in  Saybrook,  Conn.,  in  1625.  His  great-grandfather,  Lebbeus  Chapman,  was  an  Ensign 
in  the  Army  of  the  Revolution.  His  grandfather,  a  sea  captain,  died  at  Port  au  Prince.  His 
mother  was  Mary  Elizabeth  Chase,  daughter  of  Daniel  Chase,  of  the  Chase  family  of  Saco,  Me. 

Nathan,  after  he  left  the  Class  Senior  year,  entered  the  house  of  John  Fox  &  Co.,  bankers 
and  merchants  of  London,  England,  in  1868,  and  became  a  partner  in  1870  and  head  of  the 
firm  in  1871,  on  the  death  of  Mr.  Fox.  He  continued  in  the  firm  till  1875.  He  then  engaged 
in  business  in  South  America  and  the  West  Indies  until  1880.  Then  came  to  New  York,  and 
has  since  been  engaged  in  the  banking  and  brokerage  business  with  Bound  &  Co.  and  other 
firms. 


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He  married  Mary  P.  Chapman,  December  28th,   1876,  at  Englewood,  N.  J.     She  died 
October  13th,  1889,  at  Rutherford,  N.  J. 

CHILDREN. 

Lebbeus,  born  October  6th,  1878,  Englewood,  N.  J. 

Allen  A.,  born  April  23d,  1880,  Englewood,  N.  J.;  died  October  28th.  1891,  Englewood, 
N.  J. 

Edith  Van  Buren,  born  September  loth,  1885,  Englewood,  N.  J. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES^   HONORS^  RANK. 

Linonia,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Delta  Beta  Chi,  D.  K.  E.  and  Scroll  and  Key. 


ELIHU  LEACH  CLARK. 

Elihu  Leach  Clark,  son  of  Hon.  Elihu  Leach  and  Isabella  T.  (Beane)  Clark,  was  born 
in  Adrian,  Mich.,  April  25th,  1846. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.,  was  a  member 
of  the  Class  of  '67  till  the  end  of  the  Junior  year,  and  joined  the  Class  of  '68  at  the  beginning 
of  the  Winter  term  of  1867,  graduating  with  that  Class. 

For  some  years  after  graduation  he  was  engaged  in  private  banking  with  his  father,  at  42 
Maume  street,  Adrian,  where  his  real  estate  business  was  carried  on. 

For  the  last  fifteen  years  his  health  has  been  poor,  and  during  that  period  he  has  visited 
Europe  several  times  for  rest  and  recuperation,  traveling  in  Switzerland,  Germany,  Holland, 
Belgium,  France,  England,  Scotland  and  Italy. 

He  was  married  to  Margaret  M.  Davidson,  at  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y.,  October  13th,  1874. 

children. 
Lucretia  Davidson,  born  September  20th,   1875,  Adrian,  Mich. 

COLLEGE  societies,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia  and  "Sigma  Eps.'" 


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HENRY  DAVIS  CLEVELAND. 

Henry  Davis  Cleveland,  son  of  Henry  and  Charlotte  A.  (Dickson)  Cleveland,  was  born 
at  Perry,  N.  Y.,  January  gth,  1843. 

He  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  under  James  M.  Whiton  and  en- 
tered '66  in  the  Summer  of  '62.  He  was  with  this  Class  till  the  end  of  the  Freshman  year. 
He  then  left  '66  and  joined  '67,  and  was  with  this  Class  till  the  second  term  Senior. 

He  went  abroad  in  the  Spring  of  '(jTj,  residing  in  Germany  for  one  year.  In  the  Spring  of 
'68  he  returned  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  engaged  in  business,  first  in  an  agricultural  warehouse 
in  the  manufacturing  of  plows.  He  was  next  employed  in  the  wholesale  liquor  business 
as  bookkeeper.  In  the  Fall  of  1870-71  he  sold  out  and  made  one  or  two  other  business  ventures 
without  loss  of  consequence  except  his  time.  He  was  in  the  distillery  business  of  J.  H.  Gam- 
hart  &  Co.  till  1873-74,  when,  in  the  Spring  of  the  latter  year  he  was  employed  in  the  St.  Louis 
Iron  Mountain  Railroad  Company.    Here  he  remained  till  1881.    In  that  year  he  was  offered 


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the  position  of  Superintendent  and  Manager  of  a  Street  Railroad  in  St.  Louis  by  Thomas 
Allen.  He  was  connected  with  this  road  eight  years,  acting  as  Superintendent  for  three  years 
and  a  half.  On  the  death  of  Thomas  Allen,  in  1884,  he  left  the  road,  and  on  June  12,  1886, 
he  went  into  the  United  States  Internal  Revenue  Office  as  Stamp  Deputy. 

In  the  latter  part  of  1894  he  was  appointed  Chief  Deputy.  On  the  death  of  Judge  Speck, 
the  Collector,  he  was  appointed  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  as  Acting  Collector,  which 
position  he  held  till  the  15th  of  December.  1896,  when  the  present  incumbent,  W.  C.  McCreery, 
was  appointed  Collector,  and  he  took  the  position  as  Chief  Deputy  Collector,  which  position  he 
now  holds. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Beta  Chi,  D.  K.  E.  and  Spade  and  Grave. 


*THEODORE  CRANE. 

*Theodore  Cr.\ne,  son  of  John  Josiah  Crane,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  October  6th, 
1846,  and  died  December  14th,  1886. 

He  fitted  for  College  under  James  M.  McElligott,  in  New  York  City,  and  entered  '67  in 
the  Summer  of  '63.    He  left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  the  first  term  Junior. 

Till  1872  he  was  engaged  in  business  in  Westchester,  N.  Y.  In  1872-73  he  was  with  Wil- 
liams &  Guion's  Steamship  Line,  residing  part  of  the  time  in  New  York  City  and  part  of  the 
time  in  Savannah,  Ga.  In  1873,  and  for  two  years  after,  he  was  in  the  cotton  business.  He 
formed  a  partnership  with  J.  H.  Williams  under  the  firm  name  of  Williams  &  Crane,  their 
headquarters  being  at  Savannah,  Ga.,  with  branch  offices  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  this  firm  till  the  Fall  of  1882.  His  health,  which  was  poor,  began  to  fail  him,  and  in 
1879  he  came  North.  In  1882  he  formed  a  partiiership  with  Bucklin,  Crane  &  Co.,  45  South 
street.  New  York  City,  and  was  a  member  of  that  firm  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

He  married,  April  30th,  1873,  Margaret  B.  Wilmot,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  She  died  May 
7th,  1887. 

children. 

Sarah  H.,  born  February  21st,  1875,  Savannah,  Ga. 

Theodore,  born  July  2d,  1881,  Morristown,  N.  J. 

Both  children  reside  with  their  uncles,  Isaac  B.  and  John  A.  Crane,  at  35  West  Forty- 
seventh  street.    Their  uncle's  business  is  at  45  South  street.    The  firm  name  is  Bucklin  &  Crane. 


college  societies,  honors,  rank. 
Linonia,  Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Beta  Chi,  D.  K.  E. 

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*  CLARENCE  DARLING. 

♦Clarence  Darling,  son  of  William  Augustus  Darling,  was  born  in  New  York  City 
October  17th,  1846,  and  died  July  12th,  1864.  He  fitted  for  Yale  under  Joseph  D.  Hull,  at 
Hartford,  Conn.,  and  entered  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63. 

His  was  the  second  death  the  Class  sustained  during  its  College  course. 

He  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  "Sigma  Eps." 


JOHN  KINNE  HYDE  DE  FOREST. 

John  Kinne  Hyde  de  Forest,  son  of  Rev.  William  A.  Hyde  (Amherst  College,  1829) 
and  Martha  (Sackett)  Hyde,  was  born  June  20th,  1845,  in  Westbrook,  Conn.,  and  was  pre- 
pared for  College  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  In  1862-63  he  served  in  the  army 
with  the  Twenty-eighth  Connecticut  Volunteers  in  Florida.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of 
'67  about  two  months,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '68  in  January,  1865,  graduating  with  that 
Class. 

He  graduated  at  the  Yale  Theological  Seminary  in  1871,  and  was  ordained  and  installed 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Mount  Carmel,  Conn.,  May  24th  of  the  same  year. 

He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  June  5th,  1871,  to  Miss  Sarah  C.  Conklin,  who  died,  after 
a  painful  illness,   March  15th,   1872. 

De  Forest  remained  at  Mt.  Carmel  for  more  than  three  years,  and  developed  a  first-class 
working  Church.  In  July,  1874,  he  resigned  to  enter  the  service  of  the  American  Board,  much 
to  the  regret  of  his  people,  by  whom  he  was  greatly  beloved. 

September  23d.  1874,  he  was  again  married  to  Sarah  Elizabeth  Starr,  at  Guilford,  Conn., 
and  sailed  with  his  wife  from  San  Francisco,  to  join  the  Japan  mission,  October  31st  of  the 
same  year,  in  company  with  Dr.  A.  H.  Adams  (Yale  College,  1867)  and  Rev.  Joseph  Neesima, 
native  of  Japan. 

After  learning  the  Japanese  language,  he  engaged  in  evangelistic  work  in  Osaka,  and  while 
on  duty  there  visited  most  of  the  large  cities  in  central  Japan,  addressing  large  audiences  in 
the  theatres  (the  only  public  halls).  In  1882  his  health  failed  and  he  came  home  for  rest  and 
treatment,  returning  somewhat  improved  in  1884.  In  1886  he  removed  to  Sendi,  to  assist  in 
establishing  a  school  with  the  plan  of  making  it  into  a  Christian  college  like  the  New  England 
colleges.  This  school  was  the  first  in  the  Empire  to  be  established  by  prominent  Japanese  for 
the  express  purpose  of  putting  it  under  Christian  influences.  It  had  the  support  of  many 
wealthy  and  influential  men,  and  was  well  patronized,  but  after  an  existence  of  five  years  it 
was  discontinued.     De  Forest  remains  at  Sendi,  engaged  in  mission  work. 

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JOSIAH  NEWELL  DUNBAR. 

JosiAH  Newell  Dunbar,  son  of  Hiram  Pond  Dunbar,  was  born  at  Trenton,  N.  J.,  Octo- 
ber 7th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  under  Milton  H.  Northrop,  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  "63. 

He  left  the  Class  in  the  first  term  of  the  Sophomore  year,  and  graduated  from  Harvard 
Divinity  School  in  1872.  Assayer  in  Montana  from  1865  to  1869.  Principal  of  the  Classical 
School  at  Easton,  Pa..  1867-70.  Student  of  Theology  at  Cambridge.  Mass.,  1870-72.  Teacher 
in  and  about  Boston  since  1872. 

He  has  not  been  heard  from  since  that  time. 

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♦BRADFORD  MATTHEW  CHALONER  DURFEE. 

*  Bradford  Matthew  Chaloner  Durfee  was  born  at  Fall  River,  Mass.,  June  15th,  1843. 
and  entered  Yale  College  in  the  Fall  of  1863. 

He  fitted  for  college  under  Professor  Arthur  M.  Wheeler,  of  New  Haven.  Conn.,  and  en- 
tered the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  "63.  Continued  ill  health  obliged  him  to  leave  the 
Class  early  in  September,  1864.  Since  that  period  up  to  his  death,  which  occurred  very  sud- 
denly on  September  14th,  1872.  he  had  passed  a  great  deal  of  his  time  in  foreign  travel.  The 
following  notices  of  his  early  life  and  death  are  from  the  Fall  River  papers,  and  have  been 
very  kindly  furnished  me  by  Edward  Van  Schoonhoven : 

"  It  is  with  feelings  of  great  sorrow  that  we  are  called  upon  to  announce  the  sudden  death 
of  one  of  our  leading  citizens,  Bradford  ^L  C.  Durfee.  Esq..  who  died  last  evening  at  his  resi- 
dence. North  Main  street,  of  passive  congestion  of  the  brain.  Mr.  Durfee  had  not  been  in  his 
usual  health  for  about  three  months,  but  this  sudden  termination  of  his  life  oi  usefulness  on 
earth  was  hardly  expected  by  even  his  most  intimate  friends.  He  suffered  a  severe  attack 
early  in  the  morning,  but  during  the  day  was  better,  and  hopes  were  entertained,  as  he  rallied 
from  it.  that  he  would  fully  recover;  but  with  the  evening  came  a  second  attack,  and  he  passed 
away  a  little  before  8  o'clock 

"  Mr.  Durfee  was  born  in  this  city  on  the  15th  of  June,  1843,  and  was  in  the  thirtieth  year 
of  his  age  at  the  time  of  his  decease.  His  honored  father.  Major  Bradford  Durfee,  so  well 
and  so  widely  known  as  one  of  the  most  enterprising  of  our  business  men  of  the  past  genera- 
tion, died  very  suddenly  in  the  Summer  of  that  year,  leaving  his  only  son  an  infant  a  few  weeks 
old.  The  son  was  very  carefully  brought  up  by  his  most  excellent  mother,  who  watched  over  him 

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as  only  such  a  mother  can ;  and  though  he  never  possessed  robust  health,  he  entered  Yale  Col- 
lege, where  he  has  left  a  perpetual  memorial  of  his  attachment  to  that  institution,  and  his  love  of 
sound  learning  and  thorough  culture,  in  the  beautiful  Durfee  Dormitory,  which  he  gave  to 
Yale,  and  which  is  one  of  the  finest  buildings  that  any  college  in  New  England  possesses.  His 
health  not  permitting  the  continuance  of  his  studies  at  the  College,  he  retired  and  went  to 
Europe  for  two  years,  where  he  traveled  extensively,  gathering  rich  stores  of  information, 
and  upon  his  return  home  he  engaged  in  the  duties  of  business,  in  which  he  took  an  active  in- 
terest and  manifested  talents  of  a  superior  order.  He  was  President  of  the  Durfee  Mills  and 
Vice-President  of  the  First  National  Bank.  He  was  als-o  a  director  in  the  Fall  River  Iron 
Works  Company,  the  American  Print  Works  Company,  the  Slade  Mills  and  Mechanics'  Mills, 
and  Fall  River  Manufactory,  and  was  recently  appointed  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  one 
of  the  Commissioners  to  locate  the  Postoffice  for  our  city.  During  one  of  his  visits  to 
Europe  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  Commissioners  to  represent  our  State  at  the  great  Expo- 
sition in  Paris,  1867.  His  love  of  art,  in  which  he  took  great  interest,  led  him  to  purchase  at 
that  time  the  cartoon  of  the  'Era  of  the  Reformation,'  by  Kulbach.  He  visited  the  West  Indies 
two  or  three  years  ago,  in  his  own  yacht,  increasing  his  knowledge  of  the  productions  of  other 
climes. 

"  Mr.  Durfee  was  of  a  most  modest  and  retiring  disposition.  He  shrank  from  public  ob- 
servation, and  loved  to  do  things  quietly  and  in  his  own  way.  He  was  known  fully  only  by  those 
who  were  intimately  acquainted  with  him,  and  by  them  his  qualities  of  mind  and  heart  were 
most  highly  appreciated.  He  saw  through  all  the  coverings  of  a  question,  and  penetrated  to  its 
core  with  a  power  of  common  sense  which  is  hut  very  seldom  met  with.  Large-minded  and 
generous,  he  was  quietly  maturing  plans  which  would  in  their  completion  have  given  the 
city  one  of  its  finest  edifices,  but  in  the  midst  of  his  career,  as  life  was  opening  into  broader 
spheres  of  usefulness,  he  was  suddenly  removed  to  another  world  of  life  and  duty,  where  all 
that  is  best  here  shall  ripen  into  finer  fruitage  there." 

The  following  refers  more  particularly  to  the  funeral  exercises : 

"  The  funeral  of  the  late  Mr.  Bradford  M.  C.  Durfee  took  place  in  this  city  Tuesday. 
There  was  a  brief  and  impressive  service  at  his  late  residence.  No.  ^2  North  Main  street,  at 
half-past  eleven  o'clock  A.  M.,  at  which  the  family,  relatives  and  immediate  friends  were 
present,  conducted  by  Rev.  J.  L.  Diman,  of  Providence,  a  former  pastor  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church,  and  an  intimate  friend  of  the  deceased. 

"  After  the  conclusion  of  the  services  at  the  house,  the  casket  containing  the  remains  of 
the  deceased  was  tenderly  borne  to  the  First  Congregational  Church  by  his  uncles,  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Roswell  D.  Hitchcock,  of  New  York ;  Wm.  B.  Brayton,  David  A.  Brayton  and  John  S. 
Brayton,  of  Fall  River;  Israel  P.  Brayton,  of  Somer.set,  and  Hezekiah  A.  Brayton,  of  New 
York,  followed  by  the  sorrowing  family  and  relatives  and  friends  in  deepest  sympathy.  The 
street  was  filled  with  a  large  concourse  of  people,  who  testified  by  their  silent  presence  their 
respect  for  the  departed.  The  services  at  the  Church  commenced  with  a  soft  voluntary  upon 
the  organ  and  the  choir  sang  the  beautiful  hymn,  'Thy  Will  be  Done.' 


"  The  Rev.  Mr.  Adams,  pastor  of  the  Church,  read  the  90th  Psalm  and  appropriate  se- 
lections from  the  Scriptures.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Diman  delivered  the  address,  in  which  he  spoke 
of  the  life  and  character  of  Mr.  Durfee,  with  whom  he  had  been  acquainted  from  his  boyhood. 
He  traced  with  careful  analysis  and  great  discrimination  the  influence  of  his  home  training 
upon  his  life,  and  spoke  of  the  simplicity,  purity,  and  integrity  of  his  character ;  of  his  mental 
traits,  of  which  he  said  if  his  physical  strength  had  been  equal  to  his  mental  capacity  he 
would  have  been  second  to  none  of  the  leading  men  whose  business  energies  have  made  Fall 
River  what  it  is.  Mr.  Diman  also  spoke  of  his  benevolence,  and  of  his  unselfish  desire  to 
help  others ;  his  large  plans  for  the  future,  and  his  respect  for  sacred  things.  The  address  was 
a  beautiful  tribute  of  respect  and  esteem  for  his  former  pupil  and  friend.  Mr.  Adams  then 
made  a  most  impressive  and  solemn  prayer.  A  hymn  by  the  choir  closed  the  services  at  the 
Church. 

"An  opportunity  was  then  given  for  all  in  the  Church  to  look  at  the  body,  and  there  was 
poch  a  vast  concourse  of  people  it  took  more  than  an  hour  to  accomplish  this.  The  five  mills, 
in  which  Mr.  Durfee  was  one  of  the  chief  owners,  were  closed,  and  all  the  operatives  were 
there  to  take  their  last  look  at  one  whom  they  had  so  often  seen. 

'■  The  exercises  in  the  Church  being  closed,  the  procession  formed  and  moved  to  the 
cemetery,  the  largest  procession  I  ever  saw.  The  casket  was  placed  in  a  funeral  car  formed 
of  one  of  Mr.  Durfee's  carriages  and  driven  by  his  own  coacnman,  who  had  been  in  his  em- 
ploy for  several  years. 

"  The  remains  were  interred  at  Oak  Grove  Cemetery,  the  services  there  being  conducted 
by  Re\.  Dr.  Hitchcock.  The  soft  dripping  of  the  rain  from  the  leaves  and  the  gentle  sighing 
of  the  wind  made  a  mournful  requiem.  The  dead  was  laid  in  his  narrow  bed,  and  we  turned 
away    with    sorrowing    hearts    as    we    left    him    alone    in    his    last    earthly    resting    place. 

"  Into  the  sorrows  of  her  who  laid  there  her  only  one  we  cannot  enter.  We  dare  not  draw 
the  veil  which  should  hide  from  the  world  such  sacred  sorrow  as  hers. 

"  Friends  from  all  parts  of  the  country  went  down  to  Fall  River  to  pay  their  last  tribute 
of  respect  and  affection  to  one  who  was  worthy  of  all  the  esteem  bestowed  upon  him.  There 
were  many  college-mates  present,  as  well  as  friends  of  boyish  days. 

"  President  Porter  and  Professor  Wheeler,  of  Yale  College,  were  also  there.  Immense 
crowds  of  people  were  in  the  streets.  Never  before  was  such  a  day  known  in  Fall  River. 
Mr.  Durfee's  death  called  forth  the  best  feelings  and  earnest  sympathies  of  all  his  fellow- 
townsmen.  A  young  man  of  vast  possessions  and  of  great  promise,  one  around  whom  clustered 
the  dearest  find  holiest  ties,  was  suddenly  stricken  down  in  the  very  prime  and  vigor  of  his  man- 
hood, and  everybody  mourned  the  loss." 

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CHARLES  EDWARDS. 

Charles  Edwards,  son  of  N.  Wert  Edwards,  was  born  at  Springfield,  111.,  July  6th,  1846. 

He  was  fitted  for  College  under  Dr.  S.  H.  Taylor  at  Andover,  Mass.,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63.    He  left  the  Class  in  December  of  that  year. 

He  was  in  the  Army  Commissary  Department  for  two  years,  and  then  in  the  business  de- 
partment of  the  "State  Journal"  at  Springfield,  111.  In  1887  he  was  Acting  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Shobert  Carqufeville  Lithographing  Company,  doing  business  corner  Wabash 
avenue  and  Randolph  street.  Chicago,  111. 

In  1894  he  left  the  Lithographing  Company  and  became  connected  with  the  Rokker-O'Don- 
nell  Printing  Company,  doing  business  at  194  and  202  Clinton  street. 

He  was  married  to  Mary  Hickok  at  Springfield,  111.,  February  i8th,  1868. 

CHILDREN. 

Florence,  born  October  26th,  1872,  Springfield,  111.;  died  February  21st,  1877,  Springfield, 
111. 

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TYRON  HOLKAR  EDWARDS. 

Tyron  Holkar  Edwards,  son  of  Rev.  Tyron  Edwards,  was  born  February  26th,  1846,  in 
New  London,  Conn.,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Edwards  Place  School,  Stockbridge, 
Mass.  He  was  a  member  of  '67  till  the  close  of  Sophomore  year.  In  September,  1866,  he 
joined  '68  and  was  a  member  of  that  Class  till  near  the  close  of  Junior  year. 

After  leaving  College  he  taught  several  years  in  Easton,  Pa.,  and  then  traveled  extensively 
West  and  South,  and  also  went  abroad.  He  afterwards  studied  law,  and  in  1873  began  prac- 
ticing as  an  attorney  in  Hagerstown.  Md.  Since  1880  he  has  been  an  attorney  and  counsellor 
at  law  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  and  his  specialty  is  Railroad  and  Corpora- 
tion law.  For  several  years  he  was  Commissioner  of  the  Court  for  Washington  County,  Md. 
He  is  a  Democrat,  and  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  politics. 

In  June,  1892,  Yale  University  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts. 

He  was  married  February  13th.  1873,  at  Hagerstown,  Md.,  to  Lydia  Hollingsworth  Ken- 
nedy, and  has  four  children. 


CHILDREN. 


Katherine  H.,  born  December  7th,  1873. 
Mamie  H.  K.,  born  July  6th,  1875. 


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Lydia  H.  K.,  born  April  20th,  1878. 

Tyron  P.,  born  October  24th,  1880. 

His  wife  died  March  19th,   1882. 

He  married  in  1886  or  '87  the  granddaughter  of  Simon  Cameron  of  Pennsylvania. 

He  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  Delta  Kappa. 


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GEORGE  EASTBURN. 

George  Eastburn,  son  of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth  K.  (Taylor)  Eastburn,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 25,  1838,  in  Solebury  Township,  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  where  the  Eastburns  have  resided 
since  1729.  Before  entering  CoHege  he  served  in  the  army  in  the  Eleventh  Pennsylvania 
Volunteers. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  by  Dr.  Joseph  Thomas,  Philadelphia,  and  entered  with  the 
Class  of  '67.  At  the  end  of  the  Sophomore  year  he  obtained  leave  of  absence  and  taught  a 
year  to  replenish  his  finances,  joining  the  Class  of  '68  at  the  commencement  of  Junior  year, 
graduating  with  that  Class. 

In  October.  1868,  he  opened  an  English  and  Classical  School  at  Broad  and  Market  streets, 
Philadelphia,  with  seven  pupils.  In  January,  1870,  in  company  with  John  G.  Moore,  he  pur- 
chased the  private  school  of  Caleb  S.  Hallowell,  and  transferred  his  pupils  to  the  rooms  for- 
merly occupied  by  Mr.  Hallowell,  on  Tenth  street,  above  Arch,  and  there  mustered  about 
fifty  scholars. 


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During  the  Summer  of  1870  he  moved  into  a  new  building  on  Ninth  street,  above  Arch, 
and  opened  with  increased  numbers  under  the  title  of  "Hallowell  Select  High  School."  As 
his  partner,  Mr.  Moore,  was  absent  a  good  deal,  delivering  lectures  upon  science,  he  was  the 
recognized  head  of  the  institution.  Mr.  Moore  died  of  consumption  in  April,  1872,  and  after 
July  1st  of  that  year  Eastburn  was  the  sole  proprietor,  Principal,  Board  of  Trustees  and 
Treasurer.  He  could  accommodate  only  about  seventy  pupils  in  the  building  on  Ninth  street, 
and  judged  it  necessary  to  obtain  as  soon  as  practicable  other  quarters. 

In  September,  1877,  he  opened  his  school  at  the  northwest  corner  of  Broad  Street  and 
Fairmount  avenue,  where  he  remained  for  sixteen  years.  When  he  moved  into  his  present 
quarters  he  adopted  a  new  name — "North  Broad  Street  Select  School." 

In  1893,  in  compliance  w^ith  the  request  of  the  Alumni  of  the  school  at  their  meeting  in 
December  previous,  the  name  was  changed  to  "Eastburn  Academy." 

The  institution  is  in  a  very  flourishing  condition.  Its  catalogue  contains  the  names  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  pupils,  and  among  its  graduates  are  many  who  have  entered  the  aca- 
demical and  scientific  departments  of  Yale. 

He  was  married  to  Mary  Olden  Davis,  September  8th,  1870,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.  She 
died  May  8th,    1873. 

CHILDREN. 

Holmes  Davis,  born  May  15th,  1872,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

He  married  again  July  12th,  1876,  Elizabeth  M.  Beale,  of  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

CHILDREN. 

George,  Jr.,  born  August  31st,  1877,  Germantown,  Pa. 
Agnes  Grant,  born  October  i6th,  1878,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

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BENJAMIN    FRANKLIN    EHRMAN. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Ehrman,  son  of  Benjamin  Ehrman  and  Elizabeth  C.  (Bigler) 
Ehnnan,  was  born  at  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  March  31st,  1845. 

He  was  prepared  for  College  in  the  Woodward  High  School  and  entered  the  Class  of 
'67  in  the  Fall  of  '63. 

His  father,  Benjamin  Ehrman,  graduated  about  the  year  1840  from  the  Medical  College  in 
Philadelphia,  and  was  a  practicing  physician  in  Cincinnati  until  his  death,  in  1886.  Both  his 
father  and  grandfather  were  physicians. 

His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  John  H.  Bigler.  of  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

He  left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  the  Freshman  year.  For  a  few  years  he  was  in  the  real 
estate  business,  then  studied  law  under  Stanley  Matthews  (Senator  from  Ohio),  and  graduated 
from  the  Cincinnati  Law  School  in  May,  1877.  since  which  time  he  has  been  practicing  at  his 
home  in  Cincinnati. 


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He  was  married  to  Kate  L.  Smith,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  June  15th,  1871.  She  died  April 
i8th,  1872. 

CHILDREN. 

Louise,  born  April  17th,  1872,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

She  attended  school  at  Mt.  Auburn  Institute,  Cincinnati,  and  graduated  in  1890.  She 
then  took  a  post-graduate  course  of  study  in  Lelands  schools  in  Boston,  Mass.  She  was  mar- 
ried January  3d,  1896,  to  George  A.  Thorne,  of  Chicago,  and  has  one  child,  Virginia,  born 
December  5th,  1897,  Chicago,  111. 

Our  classmate  traveled  in  Europe  during  the  Summers  of  '87,  '89,  '92,  '94  and  '96. 

He  was  a  member  of  Brothers  and  "Sigma  Eps." 


THEODORE  HENRY  ELMER. 

Theodore  Henry  Elmer  was  born  in  South  Windsor,  Conn.,  September  4th,  1844. 

He  fitted  for  Yale  at  Williston  Seminary,  East  Hampton,  under  Josiah  Clark  and  entered 
the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63.  He  left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  Freshman  year,  and  en- 
gaged in  business  in  Chicago,  111. 

The  Secretary  has  never  heard  from  him. 

He  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  "Sigma  Eps." 


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BROWN  HOPKINS  EMERSON. 

Brown  Hopkins  Emerson,  son  of  Daniel  Hopkins  Emerson  (Dartmouth  College,  1830) 
and  Lucy  Ann  Williams  (Page)  Emerson,  was  born  in  Chester  County,  Pa.,  August  30th, 
1843. 

He  was  prepared  for  College  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and  entered  with  the  Class 
of  '67,  being  a  member  of  that  Class  one  year.  In  1864  he  served  nearly  six  months  in  the 
army  as  Quartermaster's  Clerk  in  the  Ninth  Delaware  Volunteers.  In  September,  1865,  he 
joined  the  Class  of  '68,  but  left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  the  month,  through  failure  of  health. 

His  grandfather,  Brown  Emerson.  D.  D.,  was  also  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth.  His  grand- 
mother on  his  father's  side  was  Mary  Hopkins.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Daniel  Hopkins,  D.D., 
of  Salem,  Mass.,  and  niece  of  Samuel  Hopkins,  of  Hartford.  Conn^  and  a  relative  of  President 
Mark  Hopkins,  of  Williams  College.  His  grandfather  was  third  cousin  to  Ralph  Waldo  Emer- 
son. His  ancestors  came  from  England  in  1700.  His  mother  was  a  descendant  of  Roger 
Williams. 


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After  leaving  College  he  taught  in  New  York  City  and  vicinity,  and  was  afterwards  em- 
ployed by  the  American  Sunday-school  Union  during  1S69  and  1870  in  the  Missionary  depart- 
ment of  New  York  City.  He  graduated  from  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  1873,  having 
been  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  York  Presbytery  on  the  21st  of  April  preceding. 
He  was  ordained  September  30th  of  the  same  year,  and  preached  at  Ridgebury,  N.  Y.,  for 
about  a  year.  In  the  Spring  of  1875  he  settled  over  the  Church  in  Litchfield,  N.  H.  For  fif- 
teen years  he  has  been  connected  with  the  mission  work  of  the  Philadelphia  Tract  and  Mis- 
sion Society.  He  was  also  assistant  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Washington 
Square,  and  during  the  Summer  chaplam  of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital.  He  wrote  a  Centen- 
nial hymn  for  the  Centennial  of  the  Ridgebury  Presbyterian  Church,  Orange  County,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married,  December  23d,  1869,  to  Miss  Mary  Knowles,  in  New  York  City. 

CHILDREN. 

Brown,  born  July  nth,  1872,  New  York,  N.  Y. ;  died  April  21st,  1873,  Peekskill,  N.  Y. 
James  Arthur,  born  February  23d,  1874.  Ridgebury,  N.  Y. 
Lucy  Page,  born  June  13th,  1882,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
He  was  a  member  of  Linonia. 


*WALTER  TILLY  FOSTER. 

*Walter  Tilly  Foster  was  born  at  Carmel,  N.  Y.,  November  27th,  1840. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Dr.  S.  H.  Taylor  at  Andover,  Mass.,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  October  20th,  1863.  He  left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  the  second  term  of  the  Fresh- 
man year  and  for  a  short  time  was  in  the  Class  of  '68. 

He  then  went  to  Panama,  Central  America,  on  business,  and  died  of  fever  July  8th,  1865. 

He  was  a  member  of  Brothers  and  "Sigma  Eps." 


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BENJAMIN  AUSTIN  FOWLER. 

Benjamin  Austin  Fowler,  son  of  Benjamin  Coleman  and  Sophia  C.  (Stevens)  Fowler 
and  a  brother  of  Herbert  G.  Fowler  (Yale  College,  1874),  was  born  at  Stoneham,  Mass.,  De- 
cember 14th,  1843.  He  prepared  for  College  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  In  August. 
1862,  soon  after  graduating  at  Andover.  he  enlisted  in  the  Fiftieth  Massachusetts  Volunteers 
and  joined  Banks  at  New  York,  where  he  was  detailed  for  special  service  in  the  United  States 
Signal  Corps  and  sent  to  Louisiana.  He  was  before  Port  Hudson  from  the  first  till  its  sur 
render,  in  July,  and  participated  in  most  of  the  battles.  Upon  the  day  of  its  surrender  he 
accompanied  an  expedition  to  Donaldsonville,  which  met  with  a  severe  repulse.  He  was 
mustered  out  of  the  service  in  August,  1863.  and  came  to  College.  After  passing  the  first  and 
second  terms  of  the  Freshman  year  with  '67,  he  left  that  class  on  account  of  ill  health  result- 
ing from  disease  contracted  in  the  army,  and  joined  '68  in  January,  1865.  After  graduation 
he  taught  one  year  at  Danvers,  Mass.,  and  then  engaged  in  mercantile  business  in  Boston  for 


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about  one  year.  From  1874  to  1878  he  was  agent  for  the  purcliase,  sale  and  leasing  of  real 
estate  in  Boston.  The  firm  of  B.  A.  Fowler  &  Co.,  Publishers,  was  established  in  1878.  They 
were  publishers  of  "The  Student's  Shakespeare,"  which  had  a  large  sale,  and  of  other  sub- 
scription books,  and  were  the  New  England  agents  for  "The  International  Cyclopedia."  Dodd, 
Mead  &  Co.,  publishers,  and  likewise  New  England  agents  for  the  Western  Publishing  House 
of  Chicago. 

Until  the  Summer  of  1888  Fowler's  home  was  in  Stoneham,  Mass..  where  he  was  promi- 
nent in  town  affairs.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Stoneham  Board  of  Education  from  1871  to 
1876,  when  ill  health  compelled  him  to  resign. 

On  May  15th,  1893,  he  bought  a  half  interest  in  the  firm  of  Powers  Bros.,  of  Chicago, 
111.,  engaged  in  "Educational  Specialties."  On  February  ist,  1896,  the  firm's  name  was 
changed  to  Powers,  Fowler  &  Lewis  (Yale,  '66),  and  their  place  of  business  was  changed 
from  20  Custom  House  to  358  Dearborn  Street.  In  1898  he  disposed  of  his  business  interests 
in  the  West  and  came  to  Needham,  Mass.,  where  he  is  located  at  present. 

He  married,  October  17th,  1888,  Miss  Ella  Frances  Quinby,  of  Medford,  Mass. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

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NATHANIEL  HAZARD. 

Nathaniel  Hazard,  son  of  William  Tweedy  and  Rebecca  Ann  (Naylor)  Hazard,  was 
born  at  Quincy,  111.,  May  5,  1848. 

He  fitted  for  College  under  W.  C.  Wilcox,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67 
in  the  Fall  of  '63. 

His  father  was  William  Tweedy  Hazard,  born  at  Newport,  R.  I.  He  was  not  a  college 
man.    His  occupation  during  most  of  his  life  was  that  of  a  manufacturer  (flour  mills). 

His  parental  grandfather  was  Nathaniel  Hazard,  a  graduate  of  Brown  University  (then 
Rhode  Island  University).  He  was  a  Member  of  Congress  from  Rhode  Island  and  died  in 
the  Capitol  at  Washington  and  was  buried  in  the  Congressional  burying  grounds.  His  pa- 
ternal grandmother,  Sara  Fales,  was  a  daughter  of  Judge  Samuel  Fales,  of  Taunton,  Mass. 

His  maternal  grandfather.  Robert  F.  Naylor.  was  born  in  Pennsylvania,  but  lived  mostly 
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His  maternal  grandmother  was  Mary  Bettis  Archibald,  of  Virginia. 

After  leaving  Yale  he  attended  Washington  University  Sophomore  and  Junior  years,  but 
declined  to  graduate  except  at  old  Yale.  He  v^^ent  into  the  wholesale  drug  business  1867-72; 
grain  and  shipping  business  till  1879;  back  again  to  wholesale  drugs  till  1887,  then  went  to 
New  York  City  and  engaged  in  the  electric  stock  business  with  George  L.  Wright  until  May, 
1893.  In  that  year  he  lost  his  ten-year-old  boy,  after  which  he  retired  from  business  al- 
together. 

He  married  Elizabeth  B.  Stevens  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  on  September  i8th,  1878. 

CHILDREN. 

Grace,  born  September  22d,  1880,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Nathaniel,  born  November  7th,  1882,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  died  March  i6th,  1893,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Grace  attended  school  in  New  York  City  from  1887  to  1893.     In  1894  she  studied  art 
(, sculpture)   in  the  St.  Louis  Art  School. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia  and  Delta  Kappa. 


JOHN  McCREA  HILDEBURN. 

John  McCrea  Hildeburn,  son  of  John  Martin  Hildeburn,  was  born  at  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
September  24th,  1846. 

He  fitted  for  College  under  Josiah  Clark,  at  Williston  Seminary,  and  entered  the  Class 
of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63.    He  left  the  Class  the  third  term.  Freshman  year.    ' 

Nothing  has  been  heard  of  him  since. 

He  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  "Sigma  Eps." 


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JOSEPH  WILLIAM  HOBSON. 


Joseph  William  Hobson,  son  of  Joseph  Hobson  (Bowdoin,  1837,  non-graduate)  and  Jane 
Jewell  (Libby)  Hobson,  was  born  at  Hollis,  Me.,  May  12th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  under  William  Hobson,  a  private  tutor,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67 
in  the  Summer  of  '63.     Left  the  Class  February,  1865. 

Joseph  Hobson,  his  father,  entered  Bowdoin  College  with  the  Class  of  1837;  left  College 
before  graduating  and  engaged  in  the  lumber  business,  which  he  followed  until  his  death  in 
1893. 

On  the  paternal  side  he  is  descended  from  William  Hobson,  who  came  from  England  and 
settled  in  Rowley,  Mass.,  in  the  year  1650.  Of  his  descendants,  John  Hobson  was  for  twenty 
years  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Legislature  and  Speaker  of  the  House  in  1741.  The 
family  was  represented  in  the  Revolutionary  War  by  two  members,  one  of  whom  (his  great- 
great-grandfather)    afterward  removed  to  Buxton,   Me.     Here  his  grandfather  and  father 

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were  born.  His  father  moved  to  Saco,  Ale.,  in  1848,  and  was  then  actively  engaged  in  the 
lumber  business  until  shortly  before  his  death.  He  was  several  times  elected  to  the  House 
and  Senate  of  the  Maine  Legislature,  also  the  first  Mayor  of  the  City  of  Saco. 

Has  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  most  of  the  time  after  leaving  College  until  1885. 
Was  connected  with  the  firm  of  Joseph  Hobson  &  Sons  from  1882  to  1885,  and  for  a  short  time 
after,  1893.  with  the  California    Grape  Food  Company. 

Moved  to  California  in  1887  and  since  then  has  resided  most  of  the  time  in  San  Francisco. 

Was  married  to  Celia  Nixon,  April  30th,  1867,  at  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Brothers  and  Delta  Kappa. 


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♦HENRY  KENT  HUNTINGTON. 

*Henry  Kent  Huntington,  son  of  Judge  Samuel  H.  and  Sarah  (Watkinson)  Hunting- 
ton, was  born  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  March  27th,  1845,  and  died  February  28th,   1897. 

He  fitted  for  College  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  under  Samuel  M.  Capron,  and  en- 
tered the  Class  of  '66  in  the  Fail  of  '62.  He  left  that  Class  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  the 
second  term  Freshman,  and  left  the  Class  of  '67  first  term  Sophomore,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '66  at  Trinity  College,  Hartford,  graduating  with  that  Class. 

Taught  one  year  at  Racine  College,  Racine,  Wis. 

The  following  letter  received  by  the  Secretary  in  1894  will  be  of  interest  to  the  Class : 

"New  Rochelle,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  23,  1894. 
"Wm.  H.  Morse,  Secretary: 

"  Dear  Classmate : — I  do  not  know  as  I  have  anything  especial  to  communicate  since  1875. 
I  have  been  practicing  as  a  physician  continuously  since  1873,  and  expect  to  keep  at  it  until  I 


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am  called  to  a  higher  (or  lower)  sphere  of  usefulness.  My  success  has  been  about  that  of 
the  average  country  doctor,  i.e.,  I  am  'fat,  ragged  and  sassy,'  and  I  guess  am  poorer  than  when 
I  began.  I  believe  I  have  the  respect  of  most  of  the  good  citizens  of  New  Rochelle,  and  have  no 
judgments  recorded  against  me.  My  family,  so  far  as  I  know,  has  not  increased  or  decreased. 
I  have  been  very  near  dying  on  three  occasions  in  one  j'ear.  In  fact,  I  had  three  kinds  of 
pneumonia  in  that  year  (and  the  next  year  took  the  "Keeley  cure")  and  am  still  alive. 
For  the  past  four  years  I  have  been  actively  engaged  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Health 
in  suppressing  nuisances,  and  it  is  now  my  second  year  as  President  of  that  body.  I  be- 
lieve that  is  the  only  honor  I  ever  obtained  in  my  life. 

"Yours  very  sincerely,  H.   K.   Huntington." 

He  was  married  to  Frances  Figanierre.  at  New  York  City,  September  23d,  1873. 

He  died  suddenly  of  heart  failure  on  February  28th,  1897.  He  was  a  charter  member  of 
the  Huguenot  Chapter,  Royal  Arcanum.  He  was  at  one  time  practicing  as  a  physician  at 
Hart's  Island  with  considerable  success.    He  held  many  positions  of  honor  and  trust. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES^   HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia  and  "Sigma  Eps." 


*  WILLIAM  BARD  CAPRON  JENNINGS. 

*  William  Bard  Capron  Jennings,  son  of  John  Freeman  and  Ellen  C.  Jennings,  was 
born  in  Rhinebeck,  N.  Y.,  September  17th,  1846,  and  was  prepared  for  College  by  William 
McGeorge,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  '67  till  the  close  of  the  first 
term  Sophomore  year.  He  then  entered  the  Class  of  '68  in  May,  1865,  and  was  with  the  Class 
till  June,  1868,  but  failed  to  receive  his  degree. 

After  leaving  College  he  was  employed  as  a  clerk  in  Detroit,  and  subsequently  in  New 
York  City.     He  died  of  apoplexy,  at  his  mother's  home  in  Detroit,  April  5th,  1881. 

He  was  a  member  of  Brothers  and  Delta  Kappa. 


*JOSIAH  LEE. 

*JosiAH  Lee  was  born  in  Baltimore,  ^Id.,  December  29.  1844.  He  entered  Yale  with  the 
Class  of  '67  in  September.  1863,  and  left  at  the  end  of  the  Sophomore  year  in  the  Summer  of 
1864.  After  leaving  the  Class  he  engaged  in  business  in  the  cities  of  Baltimore  and  New  York 
until  his  health,  which  had  never  been  good,  and  which  had  necessitated  his  leaving  College 
early  in  his  course,  obliged  him  to  give  up  all  business  pursuits.     In  1868  he  went  with  his 

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mother  to  Europe  and  returned  the  following  year.  Having  sufficiently  recruited  his  health, 
he  again  entered  into  business,  but  was  soon  compelled  to  give  up  all  employment,  from  a  sud- 
den and  severe  attack  of  hemorrhage  of  the  lungs,  which  induced  him  in  the  year  1870  again  to 
try  foreign  travel.  He  was  much  benefited  by  his  last  trip  abroad,  and  at  the  earnest  solicita- 
tion of  his  mother  abstained  from  all  business  engagements.  In  the  Summer  of  1872  he  visited 
Bath  Alum  Springs,  of  Virginia.  There  he  took  a  violent  cold,  which  brought  on  a  severe  at- 
tack of  pneumonia  and  hemorrhage.  Returning  to  Baltimore  in  October,  1872,  he  continued  in 
poor  health,  daily  growing  weaker,  until  January  nth,  1873,  when  he  died  of  consumption. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Beta  Chi  and  D.  K.  E. 


*HARPIN  MEIGS  LUM. 

*Harpin  Meigs  Lum  was  born  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  November  6th,  1847.  Drowned 
during  the  last  week  in  August,  1866,  in  the  Mississippi,  at  Prairie  du  Chien,  Wis.,  while  en- 
deavoring to  land  from  a  steamboat.  His  body  was  recovered  and  the  funeral  took  place  at 
New  Haven  a  few  days  afterward. 

He  fitted  for  Yale  at  Gen.  Russell's  School  in  New  Haven,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67 
in  the  Fall  of  '63.     His  was  the  fourth  death  during  our  College  course. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,    HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa.  Phi  Theta  Psi  and  Psi  Upsilon. 


GEORGE  HENRY  iMARR. 

George  Henry  Marr,  son  of  Robert  Parker  Marr,  was  born  at  Kenosha,  Wis.,  Oct.  2d, 
1844. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Professor  Stone  in  the  Kenosha  High  School,  and  en- 
tered the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63.  He  left  the  Class  at  the  close  of  the  second  term  of 
the  Sophomore  year. 

For  a  few  years  after  leaving  the  Class  he  was  a  commission  merchant  at  Chicago,  111.,  but 
the  Secretary  has  not  heard  from  him  in  many  years. 

college  societies,  honors,  rank. 
Brothers  and  Gamma  Nu. 

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GEORGE  WILLIAM  MAGHEE, 

George  William  Maghee,  son  of  Gillison  ]Maghee,  was  born  at  Evansville,  Ind.,  April 
nth,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Zachariah  Phelps,  at  Mt.  Pleasant  Academy,  Sing 
Sing,  N.  Y.,  and  entered  the  Class  of  "67  in  the  Summer  of  '63.  He  left  during  the  first  term 
of  the  Freshman  year.     He  has  never  been  heard  from. 

college  societies,  honors,  rank. 
Brothers,  "Sigma   Eps." 


GEORGE  xMANIERRE. 

George  Manierre  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  February  5th,  1845,  and  was  prepared  for 
College  at  Lind  University,  Lake  Forest,  111.  He  entered  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63  and  remained 
with  the  Class  during  the  first  term  Freshman.  He  entered  '68  in  the  Fall  of  '64,  remaining 
with  the  Class  till  July,  1867. 

He  graduated  at  the  Columbia  Law  School  in  1869,  and  since  1870  has  been  in  the  real  es- 
tate business  in  Chicago,  111.  In  June,  1893,  Yale  University  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of 
Master  of  Arts. 

college  societies,  honors,  rank. 

Brothers,   Delta  Kappa,   Phi   Theta  Psi,   Psi   Upsilon,   Scroll  and  Key. 


ZIMRI  SETH  MASTIN. 

ZiMRi  Seth  Mastin,  son  of  Alice  Ann  Mastin.  was  born  at  Bernadotte,  111.,  September 
i6th,  1841. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  George  Stephens  at  Fulton  Seminary,  in  his  native 
place,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63.  He  left  the  Class  during  the  first  term 
of  the  Freshman  year.  He  went  to  Minnesota  for  his  health,  where  he  studied  for  several 
months,  returning  to  New  Haven  in  1865.  He  then  entered  the  Class  of  '69,  where  he  remained 
for  two  terms.  He  then  went  to  Europe,  remaining  in  Germany  the  greater  part  of  the  time. 
Returning  in  1866,  he  entered  the  Yale  Law  School  and  graduated  in  1868.  He  then  removed 
to  Chicago,  where  he  studied  and  practiced  law. 

The  Secretary  has  not  heard  from  him  in  many  years. 

college  societies,   honors,  RANK. 

Brothers  and  ''Sigma  Eps." 

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CONSTANT  ROBERT  MARKS. 

Constant  Robert  Marks,  son  of  Almeron  and  Mary  (Phelps)  Marks,  was  born  at 
Durham,  N.  Y.,  April  nth,  1841. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  S.  T.  Frost  at  the  Hudson  River  Institute,  Claverack, 
NT  Y.,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63.  He  left  the  Class  the  second  term 
Sophomore  year. 

His  father  and  grandfather  were  lawyers  from  Connecticut,  and  his  mother  also  was  of 
N^ew  England  stock. 

He  studied  and  practiced  law  at  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  until  April,  1868,  when  he  went  West 
and  took  up  his  residence  in  Sioux  City,  Iowa.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  1867.  In  June, 
1875,  he  was  in  partnership  with  E.  H.  Hubbard,  of  the  Class  of  '^2.  This  partnership  lasted 
only  a  few  years,  and  on  its  dissolution  in  1878  he  formed  a  partnership  with  David  Mould, 
the  firm  being  Marks  &  Mould.    He  is  still  a  member  of  this  firm. 


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He  married  H.  Josephine  Kilbourn  at  Great  Barrington,  Mass.,  June  27,  1871. 

CHILDREN. 

Russell  Almeron,  born  March  2d,  1874,  Sioux  City,  Iowa. 

Constant  Robert,  Jr.,  born  September  29th,  1876,  Sioux  City,  Iowa. 

Josephine  Lorena,  born  December  8th,   1887,  Sioux  City,  Iowa. 

Russell  Almeron  fitted  for  College  at  the  Sioux  City  High  School,  and  entered  Yale  in 
the  Summer  of  1891,  graduating  with  the  Class  of  1895.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  Iowa 
in  January,  1898;  is  now  one  of  the  firm  of  Marks  &  Mould. 

Constant  Robert,  Jr.,  graduated  from  the  Sioux  City  High  School  in  1896  and  has  gone 
into  business. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Brothers,  Gamma  Nu. 


WOLCOTT  LEE  McKENNEY. 

WoLCOTT  Lee  McKenney,  son  of  Samuel  Treat  McKenney,  was  born  at  Rainbow,  Conn., 
January  30th,  1843. 

He  fitted  for  College  under  Dr.  S.  H.  Taylor,  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.  He 
entered  the  Class  of  'd^  in  the  Fall  of  '63.  Left  the  class  at  the  end  of  the  second  term  Fresh- 
man. 

He  studied  law  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  in  1868  went  to  Chicago,  111.  Shortly  afterwards 
he  moved  to  Jefferson.  Wis. 

He  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  "Sigma  Eps"  while  in  College. 


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WILLIAM  ALLISON  McKINNEY. 

William  Allison  McKinney,  son  of  Edward  McKinney  and  Marcia  M.  (Phillips)  Mc- 
Kinney,  and  brother  of  E.  P.  McKinney  (Yale  College,  i86x),  was  born  August  31st,  1845, 
in  Cooperstown,  N.  Y.,  where  his  father  was  temporarily  residing  in  order  to  look  after  his 
business  interests  in  that  place.  About  a  year  later  he  returned  to  Binghamton,  which  had 
long  been  the  family  home.  McKinney  received  his  preparation  for  College  at  the  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Mass. ;  was  a  member  of  '67  till  October,  1864.  and  joined  '68  at  the  be- 
ginning of  Sophomore  year. 

He  was  assistant  editor  of  the  Norwich  "Bulletin"  o"e  year,  and  one  year  assistant 
editor  of  the  Hartford  "Post."  He  then  entered  Columbia  College  Law  School,  where  he 
graduated  in  1871,  in  which  year  he  became  Secretary  of  the  New  York  State  Council  of 
Political  Reform.  In  1872  he  went  to  Europe  on  account  of  ill  health,  and  on  his  return 
opened  a  law  office  in  Binghamton,  where  he  has  since  resided,  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession. 


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His  office  is  at  i8  Chenango  Street  and  his  residence  at  84  Henry  Street. 
He  was  married  May  8,  1880,  to  Mary  E.  Niven,  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

CHILDREN. 

Elizabeth  Niven,  born  June  8th,  1881.  Binghamton,  N.  Y. ;  died  July  20,  1882,  Bingham- 
ton,  N.  Y. 

Charlotte  Niven,  born  November  12th,  1886,  Binghamton,  N.  Y. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Phi  Theta  Psi,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones.    First  prize 
English  Composition  third  term  Sophomore. 


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JOHN  MORTON  McKINSTRY. 


John  Morton  McKinstry,  son  of  Rev.  John  Alexander  (Amherst  College)  and  Mary  E. 
(Morton)  McKinstry.  was  born  at  Torrington,  Conn.,  November  17th,  1844.  The  pioneer 
forefathers  of  the  McKinstry  family  graduated  at  Edinburgh  in  1712  and  came  to  this  country 
in  1718.  The  grandfather  of  our  classmate  lived  in  Chicopee,  Mass.  He  married  Miss 
Grace  Williams,  and  his  fifth  child  was  the  father  of  our  classmate.  He  fitted  for  Yale  at 
East  Windsor  Hill  and  Easthampton,  Mass.,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  second  term 
Freshman  year  and  left  the  first  term  Sophomore,  having  been  in  '66  a  part  of  Freshman  year. 
After  leaving  '67  he  taught  for  a  time  in  Chicopee,  and  also  was  principal  of  an  Academy  in 
Richfield,  Ohio.  He  then  went  to  California,  remaining  there  three  years,  and  upon  his  re- 
turn was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Forest  City  Wooden  Ware  Company.  Was  twice  elected 
National  President  of  the  Commercial  Travellers'  Protective  Association  of  the  country.  This 
office,  in  1891,  he  resigned  and  engaged  in  fraternal  work.     He  held  many  offices  of  trust  in 

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various  fraternal  beneficial  associations,  and  at  the  present  time  is  one  of  three  in  charge  of  the 
reserve  funds  of  an  association  of  200,000  men.  In  the  face  of  a  large  adverse  political  majority, 
he  vi'as,  in  1875,  elected  to  a  seat  in  the  City  Government  of  Cleveland.  Ohio.  He  at  present  is 
Supreme  Master  and  Grand  Secretary  for  Ohio  of  the  Royal  Arcanum. 

He  married  Miss  Laura  M.  Newton,  of  Richfield,  Ohio,  on  November  14th,  1870.     They 
have  no  children. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,   RANK. 

Linonia  and  "Sigma  Eps." 


ELISHA  WRIGHT  MILLER. 

Elish.\  Wright  Miller,  son  of  Charles  E.  Miller  and  Emily  (Clark)  Miller,  and  brother 
of  E.  S.  Miller  (Yale  College,  '72,)  and  Charles  Miller  (Yale,  '79).  was  bom  at  Williston, 
Vt.,  October  29th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Joseph  S.  Cilley  at  Williston  Academy,  and  entered 
the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63.  He  left  the  Class  in  April,  1864.  and  entered  the  Class 
of  '68  the  following  April,  1865.  graduating  with  that  Class. 

His  father  was  a  farmer.  His  ancestors  came  from  England — two  brothers — and  set- 
tled in  Springfield,  Mass.  They  moved  later  to  Middlebury,  Vt.,  and  then  to  Williston,  Vt., 
where  the  subject  of  this  sketch  and  his  father  were  born. 

The  family  were  very  prolific.  His  grandfather  had  seventeen  children  by  two  wives; 
one  branch  of  the  family  moved  to  Rochester,  N.  Y..  and  vicinity. 

His  mother  was  born  at  Royalton,  Vt.,  and  her  ancestors  settled  in  Connecticut. 

He  studied  theology  at  the  Yale  Seminary,  graduating  in  May.  1872.  In  the  Fall  of  that 
j'ear  he  acted  as  Professor  of  Latin  in  the  Vermont  Conference  Methodist  Seminary  and  Fe- 
male College  at  IMontpelier,  Vt. 

From  November,  1872.  until  May,  1873.  he  preached  at  South  Royalton,  Vt.  He  was  or- 
dained on  October  23rd,  1873,  and  has  followed  the  ministry  ever  since.  In  June  of  that  year 
he  began  preaching  at  Hersey  and  Reed  City.  Mich.  From  Reed  City  he  moved  to  Rockfort, 
]\Iich.,  where  he  preached  from  1873  to  1874.  He  then  moved  to  Big  Rapids,  where  he 
preached  from  1877  to  1882,  then  to  Clinton,  where  he  preached  from  1882  to  1884.  From  1879 
to  1882  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  at  Big  Rapids,  and  wrote  several  articles 
of  .secular  and  religious  interest  to  the  papers.  For  seven  years,  from  November,  1884,  to 
A.ugust,  1891,  he  was  engaged  in  Sunday  School  work  in  Michigan. 

On  September  ist,  1891,  for  family  reasons;,  he  retired  from  the  position  of  State  Congre- 
gational Sunday  School  Superintendent  for  Michigan  and  re-entered  the  pastorate  field.  He 
was  pastor  of  the  Eaton  Rapids.  Mich..  Congregational  Church  from  December,  1891,  to  Sep- 

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tember,    1896.     In   December,    1896,   he  became  pastor  of  the   Carson   City   Congregational 
Church,  where  he  now  is. 

He  married  Carrie  E.  Livingston,  of  Ada,  Michigan,  July  6,  1876. 

CHILDREN. 

l.aura  L.,  born  November  12th,  1883,  Clinton,  Mich. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia  and  Gamma  Nu,  Alpha  Delta  Phi.     Oration. 


JOHN  HUNT  MILLER. 

John  Hunt  Miller,  son  of  Hannah  H.  Miller,  was  born  at  Williamsburg,  Mass.,  January 
13th,  1842. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  .A.ugustus  F.  Jones,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  at  the 
beginning  of  the  Freshman  year  (1863).  He  left  the  Class  in  December,  1864,  and  has  not  been 
heard  from  since. 

COLLEGE  societies,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Brothers  and  Gamma  Nu. 


FRANK  MOORE. 

Frank  Moore,  son  of  Reuben  and  Margaret  T.  (Riddle)  Moore,  was  born  at  St.  Clair, 
Mich.,  September  6th,  1845. 

He  was  prepared  for  College  at  Williston  Seminary,  and  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of 
'67,  remaining  with  that  Class  a  year  and  one  term.  He  joined  the  class  of  '68  at  the  begin- 
ning of  Sophomore  year,  graduating  with  that  Class. 

After  graduation  he  spent  six  months  in  a  law  ofFice  in  Detroit,  and  subsequently  became 
bookkeeper  in  a  large  lumber  yard  at  Toledo,  Ohio.  In  1871  he  gave  up  his  position  in  Toledo 
and  returned  to  Detroit.  He  continued  in  the  lumber  business  in  that  city,  and  afterwards  in 
Saginaw  and  St.  Clair  till  1879,  when  he  purchased  the  St.  Clair  "Republican,"  a  weekly 
paper,  of  which  he  has  since  been  the  editor  and  publisher. 

He  has  been  twice  postmaster  of  St.  Clair,  and  has  held  that  office  for  nearly  ten  years. 
June  1st,  1881,  he  was  appointed  by  President  Hayes,  and  served  till  April  ist,  1886.  In 
March,   1890,  he  was  appointed  for  a  second  term  by  President  Harrison. 

He  was  married  to  Emily  S.  Parmelee,  June  nth,  1873,  in  Toledo,  O. 

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CHILDREN. 

Laura,  born  January  19th.  1875,  Saginaw,  Mich. 
Franklin,  born  September  6th,  1877,  St.  Clair,  IMich. 
Margaret,  born  November  28th,  1879.  St.  Clair,  Mich. 
Emily,  born  January  4th,  1885,  St.  Clair,  Mich. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Linonia,  "Sigma  Eps"  and  Psi  Upsilon. 


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LEWIS  C.   NELSON. 

Lewis  C.  Nelson,  son  of  James  Martin  and  Margaret  Jane  (Wyan)  Nelson,  was  born 
at  Booneville,  Mo.,  September  i8th,  1848. 

He  fitted  for  College  under  Frederick  T.  Kenifer,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the 
Summer  of  '63. 

His  father  was  a  banker,  a  Virginian  by  birth  and  a  grandson  of  Thomas  Nelson,  one  of 
the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence  and  "Virginia's  first  Governor." 

His  mother  was  a  Kentuckian  by  birth  and  her  ancestors  were  of  Scotch  descent. 

He  left  the  Class  in  the  latter  part  of  the  second  term  of  the  Sophomore  year,  and  grad- 
uated at  the  Missouri  State  University  in  the  Class  of  '67. 

He  was  engaged  in  the  banking  business  at  Booneville,  Mo.,  until  the  year  1870,  when  he 
became  cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank  at  Fort  Scott,  Kansas.  In  the  Fall  of  1877,  he 
removed  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  became  cashier  of  the  Valley  National  Bank,  which  position  he 


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held  a  year  and  then  went  into  the  private  banking  business,  under  the  firm  name  of  Nelson  & 
Noel,  Investment  Brokers. 

He  is  also  interested  in  and  a  director  of  several  large  corporations  and  firms,  among  them 
being  one  of  the  organizers  and  directors  of  the  Laclede  Bank ;  President  of  the  Laclede  Land 
and  Improvement  Company;  President  of  the  Quincy  Mining  Company;  President  of  the 
Nelson  Land  and  Live  Stock  Company  of  Texas;  director  in  the  Central  Missouri  Railroad 
Company ;  director  in  the  ^Missouri  Transfer  Railroad  Company ;  also  largely  interested  in 
real  estate  in  St.  Louis  and  its  suburbs,  and  is  President  of  the  Belmont  Heights  Improve- 
ment  Company. 

He  retired  recently  from  active  work,  although  he  still  holds  the  position  of  Vice-Presi- 
dent of  the  St.  Louis  National  Bank. 

He  writes  that  he  enjoys  good  health  and  spends  his  Winters,  as  a  rule,  in  the  Southern 
climate,  but  stays  in  St.  Louis  during  the  Summer. 

He  married  Alice  Estell,  Howard  County,  Mo.,  November  22nd,  1871.  She  died  May 
23rd,  1872,  at  Fort  Scott,  Kan. 

He  married  Louise  E.  Bradford  at  Fort  Scott,  Kan.,  October  ist,  1875. 

CHILDREN. 

James  M.,  born  March  7th,  1876,  Fort  Scott,  Kan. 

Lewis  C,  Jr.,  born  October,  1878,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  died  December  2nd,  1883,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

James  prepared  for  College  at  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  passed  his  examination  for  enter- 
ing Yale  in  the  Fall  of  1892,  but  then  went  into  business,  being  associated  with  his  father  in 
the  conduct  of  his  aflfairs. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Brothers,  Gamma  Nu. 


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FRANK  GRIFFITH  NEWLANDS. 


Frank  Griffith  Newlands,  son  of  James  Birney  and  Jessie  (Barland)  Newlands,  was 
born  at  Natchez,  Miss.,  August  28th,  1848. 

When  quite  a  young  man  he  determined  to  follow  the  legal  profession.  He  attended 
school  at  Quincy  and  Pagom,  111.,  and  the  high  school  at  Chicago,  and  was  trained  for  Yale  by 
a  private  tutor  in  Washington.  While  at  Yale  he  devoted  much  of  his  time  to  literature,  giv- 
ing attention  to  the  debates,  and  was  welcome  in  the  social  life  of  the  College.  Owing  to 
financial  circumstances,  he  was  unable  to  continue  his  college  course  and  left  in  the  third  term 
(Junior  year),  although  friends  offered  to  assist  him. 

His  father,  James  Birney  Newlands,  was  born  in  Scotland.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the 
University  of  Edinburgh  and  became  a  distinguished  physician,  being  a  man  of  great  natural 
attainments  and  wide  experience.  He  first  settled  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  then  went  South,  and  finally 
settled  in  Quincy,  111.,  where  he  died,  leaving  his  family  in  straitened  circumstances.  Al- 
though possessed  of  a  fine  income,  he  spent  it  all  in  a  too  liberal  life.  He  died  when  New- 
lands  was  but  three  years  old. 

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Newlands'  mother,  Jessie  Barland,  was  a  native  of  Perth,  Scotland,  a  woman  of  great 
personal  attraction,  culture,  intellect,  and  highly  accomplished  in  music. 

After  leaving  Yale  he  went  to  Washington,  where,  with  the  influence  of  Governor  Gris- 
wold,  of  New  York,  he  secured  a  position  in  the  Civil  Service  which  enabled  him  to  pursue 
the  study  of  law  at  the  Columbia  University  Law  School.  Upon  being  admitted  to  the  Bar 
in  1869,  at  the  age  of  21,  he  determined  to  try  his  fortune  in  San  Francisco.  With  numerous 
letters  of  introduction  he  arrived  at  the  Pacific  Coast  in  1870.  Finding  it  difficult  to  get  started, 
he  made  himself  familiar  with  office  work  and  the  practice  of  the  couits,  then  secured  desk 
room  in  the  office  of  a  prominent  lawyer.  Failing  to  acquire  business  as  rapidly  as  he  wished, 
he  endeavored  to  gain  a  footing  by  volunteering  to  act  as  counsel  for  the  defense  in  criminal 
cases.  After  a  year  spent  successfully  in  this  work  he  obtained  a  client  from  Judge  D.  R. 
Lake,  the  Judge  before  whom  he  practiced  in  the  criminal  court,  and  was  also  retained  by 
some  of  the  prominent  lawyers  as  assistant  counsel,  being  given  some  of  their  simpler  cases  to 
try.  Being  successful  in  this,  his  practice  rapidly  increased,  and  the  second  year  found  him  with 
an  income  of  several  thousand  dollars  and  each  year  increasing.  Among  his  clients  might  be 
mentioned  the  Spring  Valley  Water  Works,  the  Bank  of  California,  the  Odd  Fellows'  Bank 
vs.  William  Sharon.     Mr.  Newlands  continued  in  active  practice  until  1885. 

During  his  residence  in  San  Francisco  he  was  always  identified  with  movements  looking 
toward  the  improvement  of  the  city. 

During  his  youthful  days  he  was  a  great  admirer  of  Lincoln,  but  after  his  death,  owing  to 
the  repressive  measures  resorted  to  by  Congress  in  its  dealings  with  the  South,  he  became  a 
Democrat.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Democratic  State  Central 
Committee  in  the  Hancock  campaign  in  1889.  In  1887  he  was  prominently  mentioned  for  a 
seat  in  the  U.  S.  Senate,  but  was  defeated. 

In  1889  he  moved  to  Nevada  on  account  of  the  fine  opportunities  for  enterprise  afforded 
by  the  undeveloped  resources  of  the  western  portion  of  that  State.  He  selected  Reno  as  his 
place  of  residence,  and  engaged  in  enterprises  for  the  improvement  of  the  State,  thereby  making 
the  population  treble  in  a  very  short  time.  On  account  of  large  investments  which  were  made 
in  the  District  of  Columbia  by  Senator  Sharon  he  has  found  it  necessary  to  spend  a  part  of 
his  time  within  the  last  few  years  at  the  National  Capital. 

Handsome  residences  have  been  constructed  by  the  estate  within  the  past  few  years,  and 
the  erection  of  the  town  of  Chevy  Chase  in  Maryland,  near  the  boundary  line  of  the  District 
of  Columbia,  has  resulted,  this  latter  involving  the  grading  and  opening  of  streets,  the  con- 
struction of  thorough  systems  of  sewerage,  water  supplies,  electric  lights  and  all  other  features 
of  a  modern  town. 

He  purchased  from  ex-President  Cleveland,  as  a  Summer  residence,  the  beautiful  piece  of 
property  known  as  Oak  View,  situated  about  two  miles  from  the  White  House  and  com- 
manding a  splendid  view  of  the  Capital  City  from  its  verandas. 

He  was  chosen  by  the  Governor  of  Nevada  as  a  delegate  from  that  State  to  the  Silver 
Convention  which  was  held  in  St.  Louis  in  1889.     He  was  made  Vice-President  of  the  Execu- 

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live  Silver  Convention.  His  name  had  been  prominently  before  the  people  of  the  State  of 
Nevada  for  its  Governor,  but  he  had  thus  far  preferred  to  be  identified  with  measures  rather 
than  politics,  and  refused  to  allow  his  name  to  be  presented  as  a  candidate  for  the  office. 

He  was  elected  to  the  53rd  Congress  and  re-elected  to  the  S4th  as  a  Silver  party  man, 
receiving  4,581  votes  against  2,774  votes  for  H.  L.  Bartine,  Republican. 

On  November  19th,  1874,  he  married  Clara  Adelaide,  daughter  of  William  Sharon,  one  of 
the  millionaire  kings  of  the  Pacific  Coast.  She  died  on  February  i8th,  1882,  leaving  three 
children. 

CHILDREN. 

Edith  Marion,  born  August  loth,  1875,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Janet,  born  September  4th,  1876,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Frances  Clara,  born  October  loth,  1878,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Sharon,  born  February  17th,  1882,  San  Francisco,  Cal.;  died  February  17th.  1882,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

On  September  4th,  1888,  ha  married  Edith,  daughter  of  Hall  McAllister,  for  many  years 
the  leader  of  the  San  Francisco  Bar. 

CHILDREN. 

Hall  McAllister,  born  February  15th,  1890,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  died  February  15th,  1892, 
Washington,  D.  C. 

John  Cutler,  born  December  7th,  1893,  Chevy  Chase,  Md. ;  died  December  8th,  1893.  Chevy 
Chase.  Md. 

COLLEGE  SOCIETIES,   HONORS,  RANK. 

Brothers,  Gamma  Nu,  Phi  Theta  Psi,  Psi  Upsilon,  3rd  prize  Sophomore  Prize  Debate, 
3rd  prize  Declamation  third  term  Sophomore. 


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CHARLES  AUGUSTUS  PARKE. 

Charles  Augustus  Parke,  son  of  Hudson  and  Ann  DeVVolf  (Leonard)  Parke,  was  born 
at  Mount  Vernon,  Ind.,  May  8th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  Crawfordsville,  Ind.,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '66  in  Sep- 
tember, '62.  He  left  that  Class  in  the  second  term  of  the  Sophomore  year,  and  was  with  the 
Class  of  '67  a  portion  of  the  Sophomore  year. 

His  father  did  not  graduate  from  College,  but  his  grandfather  entered  the  Medical  College 
of  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  and  graduated  there  in  1802.  Years  after  he  came  to  Mount  Vernon, 
Posey  County,  Ind.,  and  settled  there.  He  was  murdered  on  account  of  having  a  body  in  his 
office  for  dissection.  He  left  a  son  (the  only  child)  two  years  old.  He  lived  here  most  of  his 
life,  and  was  engaged  in  dealing  in  grain  and  speculating  in  land. 

His  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Rev.  David  A.  Leonard,  of  Bristol.  R.  I. 


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After  leaving  college  he  went  abroad  in  2vlarch,  1865,  remaining  there  two  j^ears,  spending 
most  of  his  time  in  Germany.  On  his  return  he  became  engaged  in  the  banking  business, 
acting  as  cashier  of  the  Mount  Vernon  Banking  Company,  Mount  Vernon,  Ind. 

He  married  Nina  Dale  Owen  at  Mt.  Vernon,  Ind.,  May  7th,  1870. 

CHILDREN. 

Caroline  Dale  Owen,  born  March  23rd,  1871,  New  Harmony,  Ind. 

Ada  Owen,  born  December  i6th,  1872,  Mt.  Vernon,  Ind. 

Julius  L.,  born  November  loth,  1874,  Mt.  Vernon,  Ind. 

Julius  L.  fitted  for  college  at  the  Franklin  School,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  also  at  the  School 
of  White  &  Sykes,  and  entered  Yale  in  1893  with  the  Class  of  '97,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  the  Summer  of  that  year. 

COLLEGE   SOCIETIES^    HONORS^   RANK. 

Linonia,  Delta  Kappa  and  Delta  Beta  Chi. 


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♦GEORGE  JANVIER  PLANT. 

♦George  Janvier  Plant,  son  of  George  P.  and  Matilda  W.  (January)  Plant,  was  born  at 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  February  15th,  1843.     Died  April  30th,  1897,  of  cirrhosis  of  the  liver. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  Andover,  Mass.,  under  Dr.  S.  H.  Taylor,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63.  He  left  this  Class  at  the  end  of  the  second  term  of  the 
Sophomore  year. 

He  traveled  extensively  out  West.  On  one  occasion  in  the  year  1866  he  ascended  the 
Missouri  River  from  St.  Louis  to  Fort  Benton,  and  crossed  the  plains  three  times  before  the 
Pacific  Railroad  was  built.  He  resided  in  Montana  Territory  from  1866-69  inclusive;  he  then 
returned  to  St.  Louis  and  went  into  the  milling  business,  with  which  he  was  prominently 
identified  until  his  death.  He  was  President  of  the  Plant  Milling  Company,  which  was  estab- 
lished in  1840  by  his  father,  the  late  George  P.  Plant,  and  his  uncle,  the  late  Samuel  Plant, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Geo.  P.  Plant  &  Co.  At  the  death  of  his  father  in  1875  he  succeeded 
him  as  the  President  of  this  company. 


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In  1883  he  incorporated  a  new  companj'  and  built  a  large  new  mill. 

For  over  twenty  years  he  was  a  director  in  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce,  one  of  the 
largest  institutions  in  St.  Louis.  He  was  an  active  and  well  known  member  of  several  com- 
mercial and  social  clubs.  He  was  a  man  of  rare  business  judgment,  intimate  with  few,  but 
devoted  to  his  family  and  chosen  friends.  During  his  last  illness  he  received  the  notice  of  the 
Class  meeting,  at  which  he  expressed  great  pleasure,  and  declared  his  intention  of  attending 
and  seeing  "the  boys"  once  more.  He  often  spoke  with  great  affection  of  various  members  of 
the  Class  and  his  life  at  Yale.  The  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  in  St.  Louis  is  best  made 
known  by  the  accompanying  resolutions  adopted  by  the  Bank  of  Commerce,  with  which  he 
was  so  intimately  connected : 

THE    NATIONAL   BANK   OF   COMMERCE. 

St.  Louis,  May  ist,  1897. 
To  the  Shareholders  in  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce,  in  St.  Louis : 

--  It  is  with  sorrow  and  regret  that  we  announce  to  you  the  death  of  one  of  your  Board  of 
Directors,  Mr.  George  Janvier  Plant,  who  has  for  twenty-two  years  given  us  the  benefit  of  his 
rare  judgment  and  experience,  and  by  his  loyalty  to  your  interests  has  had  a  large  share  in 
placing  your  institution  in  the  position  it  now  occupies. 

Modest,  dignified,  upright,  wise  and  liberal,  Mr.  Plant  filled  a  large  place  in  the  hearts  of 
his  associates,  who  now  mourn  his  loss  and  realize  how  much  his  wise  counsels  have  done  to 
shape  the  policy  of  this  corporation. 

He  leaves  with  us  the  memory  of  a  life  of  spotless  integrity,  honor  and  faithfulness  to 
every  trust  that  will  add  another  line  to  the  bright  record  of  those  whose  lives  have  maintained 
our  city's  reputation. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  C.  Van  Blarcom,  Cashier.  W.  H.  Thompson,  President. 

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*EDWIN  CLARKE  PRATT. 

♦Edwin  Clarke  Pratt,  son  of  Richard  Pratt,  was  born  at  East  Haddam,  Conn.,  December 
25th,  1840. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.,  under  Josiah 
Clarke,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63.  He  left  the  Class  in  the  first  term 
of  the  Sophomore  year  and  enlisted  in  the  Army,  and  died  from  exposure  before  Petersburg, 
Va.,  in  June,  1865.     His  was  the  third  death  in  our  College  course. 

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He  was  one  of  the  brightest  men  in  the  Class.  Coming  from  Easthampton  as  the  valedic- 
torian of  his  academic  class,  he  sustained  a  high  rank  while  in  the  Class  of  '67,  and  would 
easily  have  maintained  his  high  scholarship  if  he  had  remained. 

Nothing  more  praiseworthy  can  be  said  of  him  than  that  he  died  in  the  service  of  his 
country.     He  lived  nobly  and  he  died  a  true  man. 

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*THOMAS    HARVEY    RODMAN,  JR. 

*Thomas  Harvey  Rodman,  Jr.,  son  of  Thomas  Harvey  and  Mary  Ann  (Mann)  Rod- 
man, was  born  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  January  5th,  1848,  and  died  at  Pelham  Manor,  N.  Y., 
October  29th,  1892. 

He  fitted  for  Yale  under  Professor  J.  C.  Overheiser  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63.  He  left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  the  first  term  Sophomore 
year,  and  commenced  the  study  of  law  shortly  afterwards. 

His  father  was  a  lawyer  of  prominence  and  for  years  was  a  practitioner  at  the  New  York 
Bar. 

He  was  a  member  of  his  father's  law  firm,  Rodman  &  Adams,  59  Liberty  Street,  New 
York  City.     He  resided  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

He  married  E.  Burnham  Cockle  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  June  4th,  1873,  who  survives  him. 

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CHILDREN. 

Bessie  B.,  bom  May  3rd,  1874,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Thomas  H.,  born  June  5th,  1879,  Brooklj-n,  N.  Y. ;  died  May  13th,  1883,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Elinor  S.,  born  July  8th,  1886,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

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*JOSEPH  H.  REID. 

*JosEPH  H.  Reid,  son  of  William  Reid,  was  bom  at  Romeo,  Mich.,  December  21st,  1842. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  N.  W.  Lawton,  at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63.  He  left  the  Class  in  April,  1864.  and  graduated  with  the  Class 
of  'dj  at  the  University  of  Michigan. 

After  graduation  he  studied  at  the  Union  Theological  Seminary,  New  York,  for  a  year  or 
two,  and  was  then  settled  at  Manhattan,  Kans.  He  remained  there  till  1872.  He  then  re- 
moved to  Vassar,  Mich.,  where  he  was  settled  over  the  Fourth  Presbyterian  Church  there. 

He  died  September  nth,  1877. 

He  was  a  member  of  Brothers. 


ROBERT    STRADOR    SHIELDS. 

Robert  Strador  Shields,  son  of  William  Shields,  was  born  at  Washington,  N..  J.,  Septem- 
ber 29th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  J.  N.  Gregory  at  Allentown  Academy,  Penn.,  and 
entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63.  He  left  the  Class  in  the  second  term  of  the  Fresh- 
m.an  year.     He  has  never  been  heard  from. 

He  was  a  member  of  Brothers. 


CHARLES  EDWARD  SMITH. 

Charles  Edward  Smith,  son  of  Cyrus  B.  Smith,  was  born  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  May  27th, 
1846. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Professor  J.  C.  Overheiser  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and 
entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  'dj,.  He  left  College  the  second  term  of  the  Fresh- 
man year.     He  has  never  been  heard  from. 

He  was  a  member  of  Brothers. 

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CHARLES  CLARKE  SPELLMAN. 


Charles  Clarke  Spellman,  son  of  Solomon  Clarke  and  Martha  Jane  (West)  Spellman, 
was  born  at  South  Wilbraham,  Mass.,  December  3rd,  1843. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  Williston  Seminary,  Mass.,  under  Josiah  Clark,  and  en- 
tered the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  '63.     He  left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  the  Sophomore  year. 

His  father,  Solomon  Spellman,  was  not  a  College  graduate.  He  was  a  merchant  and  trial 
justice  in  Wilbraham,  Hampden  County,  Mass.  He  was  a  prominent  citizen  of  the  town,  and 
held  at  different  times  nearly  all  the  various  town  offices  and  represented  his  town  in  the  Gen- 
eral Court. 

Since  leaving  the  Class  he  has  devoted  himself  to  the  practice  of  the  law.  He  studied  law 
at  the  Cambridge  Law  School,  and  then  settled  at  Springfield.  Mass.  Was  elected  a  member 
of  the  Massachusetts  Legislature  in  1887  and  of  the  State  Senate  in  1888. 

He  was  married  to  Jennie  H.  Flagg  at  Springfield,  Mass.,  October  4th,  1871. 

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CHILDREN. 

Charles  Flagg,  bom  November  30th,  1873,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Bessie,  born  October  6th.  1881.  Springfield,  Mass. 

Charles  Flagg  prepared  for  College  (Yale)  at  the  Springfield  High  School,  and  entered 
the  Class  of  '96  in  the  Fall  of  '92,  graduating  with  that  Class.  He  studied  law  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Hampden  County  Bar. 

He  is  now  associated  with  his  father  in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  the  firm  being 
Spellman  &  Spellman. 

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FRANKLIN  MONROE  SPRAGUE. 


Franklin  Monroe  Sprague,  son  of  Edward  Lee  and  Sarah  Charlotte  (Sessions)  Sprague, 
was  born  at  East  Douglas,  Mass.,  November  ist,  1841. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Dr.  James  M.  Whiton,  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School.  New  Haven.  Conn.,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63.  He  left  the 
Class  at  the  end  of  the  Junior  year. 

His  ancestors  were  English  both  on  the  paternal  and  maternal  side  of  the  house.  They 
emigrated  from  England  in  the  sixteenth  century.  His  great-grandfather,  on  the  paternal 
side,  gave  the  lot  and  erected  the  first  school  hoase  in  East  Douglas.  Mass.  They  were 
Whigs  to  the  marrow  and  served  almost  to  a  man  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  His  grand- 
father's name  was  Federal  Constitution  Sprague.  He  lived  and  died  in  Thompson.  Conn. 
His  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Josiah  Sessions,  of  Thompson.  Conn.  His  father,  her  grand- 
father, was  one  of  the  patriots  that  helped  throw  the  tea  overboard  in  Boston  Harbor.     One 

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of  his  ancestors,  a  prominent  deacon  in  the  Church,  once  shot  a  deer  on  Sunday  to  obtain 
food  for  his  family.  For  this  he  was  arraigned  before  the  Church,  and  it  was  sought  to 
excommunicate  him.  This  was  at  a  time  in  the  history  of  the  Colonies  when  people  carried 
their  guns  to  meeting  to  guard  against  attacks  from  the  Indians.  In  the  midst  of  the  meeting 
he  stood  up,  and  looking  the  Minister  steadily  in  the  face  said :  "If  you  turn  mc  out  of  the 
Church  I  will  shoot  you."  This  had  its  effect,  for  the  people  had  immediate  respect  for  this 
Ecclesiastical  Cannon ! 

On  his  mother's  side  of  the  house  the  "Sessions"  were  men  of  large  frame  and  of  tall 
stature.  His  grandfather,  on  his  mother's  side,  was  six  feet  three.  No  wonder  our  class- 
mate, who  inherited  his  height,  was  passed  gently  over  the  heads  of  his  fellows  at  Linonia 
Hall  in  the  Fall  of  '63. 

After  leaving  the  Class  he  was  a  student  of  law  at  York,  Pa..  1866-68.  where  he  was 
admitted  to  the  Bar.  His  health  failing,  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  brick  at  Hudson, 
N.  Y.,  with  Robert  Andrew,  Esq.,  1868-70.  Two  years  later  he  practiced  law  at  Worcester, 
Mass.,  1870-73.  He  was  a  student  of  Theology  there,  1873-75.  He  was  ordained  in  1875,  and 
was  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Leon.  Wis..  1875-76 ;  at  Sparta,  1876-77 :  at 
Carlisle,  ^lass.,  1877-79;  at  Indian  Orchard,  Springfield,  Mass.,  1879-85.  He  is  the  author  of 
the  following  works:  "Eulogy  on  the  Rev.  William  Gaylord"  (1883),  "Socialism  from  Genesis 
to  Revelation,"  "The  Laws  of  Social  Evolution."  published  by  Lee  &  Shepard,  Boston,  ^lass. ; 
"An  Introduction  to  'Law,  Labor  and  Liberty,'  "  published  by  Corning  National  Press,  Ten- 
nessee City,  Tenn. ;  "The  City  Problem  in  Our  Country,"  published  by  M.  D.  Gushing, 
Tampa.  Fla.  He  is  a  contributor  to  "The  Springfield  Union,"  "The  Congregationalist,"  and 
other  papers. 

He  was  married  to  Abbie  R.  Fellows,  at  Hudson.  N.  Y.,  October  31st,  1866. 

CHILDREN. 

Charlotte  C.  bom  December  4th,  1869,  Hudson,  N.  Y. 

Emma  Merriam,  born  June  15th,  1872.  Worcester,  Mass. 

Emma  Merriam  was  married  at  Springfield,  Mass.,  June  15th,  1896.  to  Rev.  Geo.  Morgan 
Wood,  President  of  Rollins  College.  Winter  Park,  Fla.  His  father  is  Dr.  Sullivan  Wood,  of 
Lowell,  Mass. 

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prize  Freshman  Prize  Debate. 


LEONARD     STERLING. 

Leonard   Sterling,   son  of  W.   G.   and  Eliza  C.    (Quackenbos)    Sterling,  was  born  at 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  July  28th,  1845. 

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He  fitted  for  College  under  Rev.  Guy  B.  Day.  Golden  Hill  Institute,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67,  Sophomore  year,  studying  only  one  year,  and  on  account  of  ill-health  withdrew  at 
the  end  of  the  year. 

His  father's  name  was  W.  G.  Sterling,  a  lifelong  merchant  on  Front  street,  New  York. 
His  mother's  name  was  Eliza  C.  Quackenbos,  of  a  Dutch  Knickerbocker  family  of  the 
same  city.  The  name  of  George  P.  Quackenbos,  author  of  the  well-known  French  and 
English  Dictionary  and  of  many  educational  works,  is  familiar  to  all.  The  survivor  of  the 
Indian  massacre  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  in  early  Colonial  times,  was  his  first  ancestor  In  this 
country.  Since  he  left  the  Class  he  has  for  a  short  time  been  engaged  in  business  In  New 
York  City.  He  then  removed  to  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  and  has  been  engaged  in  business  there 
ever  since.  His  address  is  in  care  of  John  Drescoll,  671  Main  street,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
On  June  6,   1898,  he  writes  to  the  Secretary  as  follows : 

"  The  late  President  of  the  Historical  Society  has  prepared  us  a  "family  tree'  with  many 
notable  names  galore.  On  a  little  inconspicuous  twig  appears  in  small  characters  the  name  of 
our  mutual   friend,   Leonard   Sterling. 

"  After  my  father's  death  I  made  the  discovery  that  wealth  hath  wings  larger  than  any 
eagle's  or  condor's.  One  day,  long  ago,  I  remember  Professor  Gibbs  .said  with  much  de- 
cision 'That  is  sufficient,'  when  I  ventured  to  suggest  that  pecunia  comes  from  pennae ;  though 
1  think  I  had  some  humorous  idea  in  my  mind  at  that  time.  I  now  sadly  know  ic  is  connected 
with  pennae.  whatever  Professor  Gibbs  and  the  dictionaries  may  say  to  the  contrary.  But 
I  shall  not  die  under  the  yellow  flag. 

"  I  keep  up  the  acquaintance  of  those  dear  old  ancient  ladies,  the  celebrated  Nine,  includ- 
ing her  whom  Keats  styles,  "La  belle  dame  sans  merci.'  I  do  not  try  the  dyspeptic  Greek,  as 
there  is  no  'Charon'  to  help  me  over  the  Styx.  (Do  you  remember  how  Professor  Packard 
thought  he  had  us  all  without  redemption  at  last,  and  how  'Charon'  came  in  at  the  final  mo- 
ment and  saved  the  wreck?)  I  read  the  modern  ones  not  for  instruction,  but  very  much  as 
Thoreau  kept  chickens,  'Not  for  their  eggs,  but  for  their  song.' 

"  I  may  add  that  I  am  still  crowned  with  the  berries  of  the  laurel :  so  my  life's  work  is 
still  to  begin,  if  what  my  benedict  friends  affirm  be  true. 

"  I  sympathize  with  you  in  your  labors,  and  trust  you  will  be  amply  successful.  The 
words  of  the  poet  suggest  themselves : 

"  'And  now,  when  long,  long  years  have  passed, 
Some  old  fellow  will  be  the  last — 
When  he  lies  down,  but  not  till  then. 
Our  kind  Class  Angel  will  drop  the  pen. 
That  writes  in  the  day-book  kept  above, 
Our  life-long  record  of  faith  and  love ; 
So  here's  a  health,  in  homely  rhyme. 
To  our  oldest  class-mate.  Father  Time ; 
May  our  last  survivor  live  to  be 
As  bald  and  as  wise  and  as  tough  as  he ! ' 
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"And  now  may  I  wish  peace,  hope,  courage,  faith  and  all  the  virtues  and  beatitudes  to  be 
and  abide  now  and  forever  with  every  brave  and  strenuous  heart?     Yours  very  truly, 

'"Leonard  SrEKLiNc." 
He  was  a  member  of  Brothers. 


HENRY  STORER  SWAN. 

Henry  Storer  Sw.\n,  son  of  Francis  Keyes  and  Emily  (Bradbury)  Swan,  was  born  at 
Calais,  Me..  December  8th,  1844. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  Andover.  ]Mass..  under  Dr.  S.  H.  Taylor,  and  entered 
the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63.  He  left  the  Class  in  March.  1865,  the  second  term  of 
Sophomore  year. 

His  father  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1840  at  Waterville  College,  but  ill-health  pre- 
vented his  completing  his  course  and  he  became  a  banker  and  broker.  His  ancestors  on  both 
sides  of  the  house  were  New  Englanders. 

After  leaving  the  Class  he  studied  medicine  at  Portland.  Me.,  and  later  at  New  York  City 
in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  In  April.  1871.  he  practiced  as  assistant  on  the 
Resident  Staff  of  Bellevue  Hospital.  New  York.  He  was  House  Physician  in  charge  of  the 
Second  Medical  Division,  October  ist,  1872.  He  graduated  in  medicine  April,  1873.  He 
practiced  in  New  York  City  until  November,  1874,  when  he  removed  to  Mamaroneck,  N.  Y. 

In  December,  1882,  he  moved  to  South  Orange,  N.  J.,  where  he  stayed  until  the  Summer 
of  1883.  While  residing  there  his  health  was  so  poor  that  he  did  not  practice  his  profession. 
In  August,  1883,  he  removed  to  Bristol,  R.  I.,  which  was  his  home  until  December.  1892,  when 
he  removed  to  Middleboro.  Mass.,  which  is  his  home  at  present  and  where  he  is  practicing 
his  profession. 

He  was  married  to  Annie  C.  C.  Shaw,  at  Roxhury,  Mass..  April  7,  1877.  She  died  Oc- 
tober nth,  1891. 

He  was  a  member  of  Brothers  and  "Sigma  Eps." 


*HENRY  STUART  SWAYNE. 

*Henrv  Stuart  Swayne,  son  of  Judge  Noah  Haines  Swayne.  LL.D.  (Yale),  of  the 
U.  S.  Supreme  Court,  and  Sarah  Ann  (Wager)  Swayne,  was  born  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  June 
2nd,  1845.     He  died  November  25th,  1893,  at  Bloomington,  Ills. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Edwin  C.  Benson  at  Gambier,  Ohio,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863.  He  left  the  Class  in  the  second  term  of  the  Sophomore  year, 
and  entered  the  Class  of  '68  in  September,  1865,  graduating  with  that  Class. 

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After  graduation  he  was  engaged  in  business  for  one  year.  He  was  Assistant  Civil  En- 
gineer of  the  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis  &  Manitoba  R.  R.  from  1869  till  the  Spring  of  1872,  when 
he  resigned  and  went  abroad,  returning  the  following  Winter. 

January  ist,  1873.  he  entered  into  partnership  with  H.  Osborn  and  H.  J.  Chase,  of  Toledo, 
Ohio,  under  the  firm  name  of  Osborn,  Chase  &  Swayne,  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing 
mouldings.  They  were  doing  a  fine  business  until  October  2nd,  1873,  when  they  were  burned 
out  with  heavy  loss.  They  rebuilt  and  continued  the  business  till  January  ist,  1885,  when 
Swayne  withdrew  in  order  to  have  time  to  attend  to  the  care  of  property  in  which  he  had 
become  interested. 

On  the  death  of  Vice-President  Davis   he  was  made  executor  of  his  estate. 

In  August,  i8q3,  he  returned  from  Europe,  where  he  had  been  traveling  for  several 
months.  Soon  after  his  return  serious  pulmonary  trouble  developed,  the  result  of  a  cold  con- 
tracied  in  Paris.  He  grew  rapidly  worse  and  died  at  his  home  in  Bloomington,  November 
25th.  1893. 

He  was  married  at  Bloomington,  Ills..  December  22nd,  1875.  to  Sallie  W.  Davis,  daughter 
of  Hon.  David  Davis,  Vice-President  of  the  United  States.  His  widow  resides  at  Bloom- 
Uigton,  Ills. 

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Linonia.  Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Beta  Chi.  D.  K.  E. 


*ANSON  PHELPS  TINKER. 

*Anson  Phelps  Tinker,  youngest  child  of  Deacon  Reuben,  and  Almira  (Wade)  Tinker, 
was  born  in  Old  Lyme.  Conn.,  October  15th,  1844.     Died  November  24th,  i88b. 

When  he  was  about  seventeen  years  of  age,  he  entered  on  a  business  life  in  New  York  City, 
but  soon  after,  forming  the  purpose  of  going  to  College,  he  left  New  York  and  resumed  his 
studies,  which  he  pursued  for  a  year  in  the  High  School  in  South  Weymouth,  Mass.  He  en- 
tsred  Yale  with  thi*  Class  of  '67,  but  in  the  Spring  of  his  Freshman  year  withdrew  on  account 
of  ill-health,  and  re-entered  in  the  Fall  with  the  Class  of  '68,  graduating  with  that  Class. 

Dtiring  the  3'ear  follow  mg  graduation  he  studied  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  and  after 
that  was  for  a  year  Tutor  of  Mathematics  in  Yale  College.  He  then  completed  his  theo- 
logical studies  at  Andover,  and,  before  his  graduation  there  in  1872,  had  accepted  a  call  to  the 
pastorate  of  the  High  Street  Congregational  Church,  in  Auburn,  Me.  On  account  of  ill- 
health  he  was  unable  to  enter  immediately  on  his  work,  and  took  a  voyage  to  Europe,  from 
whence  he  returned  in  May.  1873.  He  was  ordained  at  Auburn.  Me.,  on  October  i6th  of  the 
same  year.  He  was  dismissed  from  his  charge  in  Auburn,  December  20th.  1882,  to  accept 
the  pastorate  of  the  Fort  Street  Presbyterian  Church,  Detroit,  Mich.,  but  nine  months  later  he 
was  obliged,  on  account  of  pulmonary  disease,  to  go  to  Colorado.     Though  partially  restored 

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to  health,  he  was  unable  to  return  to  his  parish,  but  in  June,  1885,  undertook  the  charge  of  the 
Capitol  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  in  Denver. 

He  was  married  October  9th,  1873,  to  Miss  Martha  J.  White,  of  South  Weymouth.  She 
died  January  20th,  1880. 

CHILDREN. 

Catherine  Matson,  born  July  26th.  1874,  Auburn,  N.  Y. 

Chauncey  Brewster,  born  October  22nd,  1876,  Auburn,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  July  20th.  1881,  to  Miss  H.  Maria  Walker,  of  Newtonville,  Mass.  She 
died  May  12th,  1882,  without  issue. 

On  November  25th,  1884.  he  was  married  to  Mrs.  Kate  (Elias)  Longman,  of  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  who  survives  him  \vithout  issue. 

He  was  a  member  of  Brothers,  Gamma  Nu.  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones. 


WILLIAM  ALLEN  UNDERWOOD. 

William  Allen  Underwood,  son  of  Daniel  Kingsley  and  ]\Iaria  Agnes  (Mitchell)  Un- 
derwood, was  born  at  Adrian  Mich.,  November  6th,  1846.  He  fitted  for  College  at  the  High 
School  in  Adrian  and  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.,  and  entered  Yale  '67  in 
the  Summer  of  '63.    He  left  the  Class  the  first  term  Sophomore. 

His  father's  ancestors  came  to  this  country  in  1636  and  settled  at  Hingham,  ^lass.,  near 
Boston.  His  mother's  grandfather  was  out  for  the  Pretender  in  Scotland  in  1745,  and  came  to 
this  country  immediately  afterwards  and  settled  at  Schenectady.  N.  Y. 

Since  leaving  the  Class  he  has  studied  a  great  deal.  In  the  Fall  of  '65  he  entered  the 
Sophomore  class  of  '68  in  the  University  of  Michigan,  but  left  at  the  end  of  Junior  year  and 
commenced  studying  law.  Was  graduated  from,  the  Albany  Law  School  in  May,  1869,  and 
then  came  to  his  home,  Adrian,  Mich.,  where  he  practiced  his  profession  till  the  Fall  of  '85. 
Was  appointed  Register  in  Bankruptcy  from  1874-76;  Prosecuting  Attorney  from  1877  to 
1881 ;  was  a  delegate  from  his  State  to  the  Republican  Convention  in  1884 ;  was  a  member  on 
resolutions  in  the  Convention;  in  1885  he  moved  to  Detroit  and  continued  to  practice  law  till 
1889,  when  he  removed  to  New  York  City  and  took  up  the  practice  there.  In  1894  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  granted  him  the  degree  of  A.  B. — the  sixth  that  was  ever  given  to  a  non- 
graduate   in  the  life  of  the  institution. 

In  November,  1897,  he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Underwood,  Van  Vorst,  Rosen  & 
Hoyt.     His  specialty  is  corporation  and  financial  law. 

He  married  Virginia  Garland  Deas,  August  17th,  1870,  at  Flint,  Mich. 

CHILDREN. 

Elizabeth  Garland,  born  January  22nd.  1872,  Adrian,  Mich. 
Ethel  Virginia,  born  November  22nd.  1873,  Adrian,  Mich. 
He  was  a  member  of  Linonia  and  "'Sigma  Eps." 

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EDWARD   VAN    SCHOONHOVEN. 

Edward  Van  Schoonhoven,  son  of  James  and  Catherine  (Lansing)  Van  Schoonhoven. 
was  born  at  Lansingburgh,  N.  Y.,  December  nth,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  at  General  Russell's  School  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and 
entered  the  Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863.  He  left  the  Class  in  the  second  term  of  the 
Sophomore  year. 

His  father  was  not  a  College  man.  He  was  a  merchant.  On  the  paternal  side  he  is 
descended  from  Guert  Van  Schoonhoven  (his  great-great-grandfather),  who  was  born 
in  1718,  in  Halfmoon,  Saratoga  County.  His  grandfather  emigrated  from  Holland  previous 
to  1675. 

He  was  descended  on  the  maternal  side  from  Abraham  Jacob  Lansing  (his  great-great- 
grandfather), who  was  born  in  Holland  in  1719,  and  emigrated  to  America  and  settled  at  Fort 


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Orange,  now  Albany.     He  obtained  a  grant  of  land  from  the  Dutch  Company,  and  became 
a  patron  of  Lansingburgh,  Schoghbrooke,  Brunswick  and  Pittstown. 

After  leaving  the  Class  he  resided  for  a  short  time  in  New  York  City,  after  which  he  re- 
turned to  his  home  in  Lansingburgh,  where  he  has  been  in  the  banking  business.  He  is 
cashier  of  the  People's  Bank  there. 

COLLEGE    SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Linonia  and  Delta  Kappa. 


FREDERICK     WESSON. 

Frederick  Wesson,  son  of  David  and  Alice  Goddard  (Howland)  Wesson,  was  born  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  August  27th,  1845. 

He  fitted  for  College  with  J.  C.  Overheiser,  Brooklyn,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of 
"67  one  term,  and  of  the  Class  of  '68  until  the  end  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  studied  law  at  the  Columbia  College  Law  School,  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  1870,  and 
practiced  for  about  two  years  in  New  York  City.  After  the  death  of  his  brother  in  1873  he 
withdrew  from  the  law,  and  became  in  1875  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hoadley  &  Co.,  bankers 
and  commission  merchants. 

In  January,  1893,  he  retired  from  the  firm  of  Hoadley  &  Co.,  having  previously  purchased 
for  a  company  of  which  he  is  President  a  Government  Railway  in  the  Colony  of  Jamaica.  This 
railway  he  is  extending  so  as  to  give  the  colony  complete  railway  facilities.  ,  Since  1890  he 
has  spent  about  six  months  of  each  year  in  Jamaica,  and  the  remaining  time  in  London  and 
France.     He  will  probably  reside  at  Kingston,  Jamaica,  for  several  years  to  come. 

While  engaged  in  business  he  has  found  time  to  acquire  thorough  knowledge  of  Spanish 
and  French,  and  a  fair  acquaintance  with  the  literature  of  both  languages.  He  has  also  writ- 
ten for  publication  a  few  articles  on  free  trade  and  on  questions  of  political  economy,  and 
several  reviews  of  books  upon  these  subjects.  He  received  the  degree  of  M.  A.  from  Yale  Col- 
lege in  1888. 

He  was  married  at  the  Chapel  Royal,  Savoy,  London,  August  13th,  1878,  to  Mrs.  Lillian 
Jenny  Mills,  eldest  daughter  of  Right  Rev.  Abraham  N.  Littlejohn,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  Long 
Island. 

CHILDREN. 

Alice  Frederieka,  born  October  i6th,  1887,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

COLLEGE   SOCIETIES,    HONORS,    RANK. 

Brothers,  "Sigma  Eps,"  Phi  Theta  Psi  and  Psi  Upsilon. 

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JAMES  THORNE  VAN  WYCK. 

James  Thorne  Van  Wyck,  son  of  Rynier  Suydam  and  Elizabeth  (Boorum)  Van  Wyck, 
was  born  at  Fishkill  Plains,  March  i6th,  1843. 

He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Andover,  Mass.,  under  Dr.  S.  H.  Taylor,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Summer  of  '63.  He  left  the  Class  in  the  Sophomore  year  on  account  of 
poor  health. 

His  ancestors  were  Hollanders,  and  came  to  this  country  among  the  first  settlers  of  what 
was  once  New  Amsterdam,  now  New  York. 

Three  brothers  came  over  together,  one  settling  on  Long  Island,  from  whom  che  present 
Mayor  of  New  York  derives  his  ancestry;  one  settled  in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.,  from  whom 
our  classmate  is  descended,  and  one  settled  in  Columbia  County,  N.  Y.  One  of  his  great- 
grandmothers  was  French,  named  Duryee,  and  another  was  English,  but  most  of  the  blood  in 
his  veins  is  good  old  Holland  Dutch. 


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After  severing  his  connection  with  the  Class,  he  resided  successively  at  Fishkill  Plains, 
Wappinger's  Falls,  and  Poughkeepsie,  engaged  in  the  garden  and  fruit  business.  The  panic 
of  1873  left  him  in  such  financial  distress  that  he  left  his  farm  and  hired  twenty  acres  near 
Poughkeepsie  in  1874,  where  he  remained  four  years,  engaged  in  the  vegetable  business.  In 
1877  he  removed  to  Fishkill  Plains  and  taught  the  Public  School  there  for  three  years.  In 
1880  he  removed  to  Cold  Spring,  and  taught  school  there  two  years ;  then  engaged  in  garden- 
ing for  seven  years.  During  this  time  he  passed  the  State  examination  entitling  him  to  teach 
in  any  public  school  in  the  State  for  life.  In  the  Winter  of  1884  he  had  some  trouble  with  the 
trustees  and  was  discharged,  but  sued  for  his  salary  and  recovered  every  cent.  He  then 
leased  five  acres  of  land  and  went  into  the  vegetable  business.  In  1889  he  removed  to  Los 
Angeles,  where  he  taught  school  for  two  years  and  canvassed  for  a  paper.  He  writes  that  he 
is  now  engaged  in  the  chicken  business,  has  built  himself  a  cottage  and  is  comfortably  situated. 

He  was  married  on  January  loth,  1871,  to  Henrietta  W.  Wright,  at  Wappinger's  Falls, 
N.  Y. 

CIITI.DREN. 

Anna  S.,  born  December  5th,  1871,  Wappinger's  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Elizabeth  B.,  born  February  15th,  1873,  Wappinger's  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Abraham  J.,  born  May  26th,  1874,  Wappinger's  F.ills,  N.  Y. 
Anna  S.  is  at  the  Oswego  Normal  School  preparing  for  a  kindergarten  teacher. 
Elizabeth  B.  was  married  April  ist,  1894.  to  Ashley  S.-  Dorr,  of  Los  Angeles.     He  is  en- 
gaged in  the  wood,  coal  and  grain  business. 

CHILDREN. 

Ruth  Elizabeth,  born  Jan.  5th,  1895. 

Ashley  Van  Wyck,  born  October  27th,  1896. 

Henry  Coker,  born  November  5th,  1897. 

Abraham  J.  is  at  present  working  on  a  ranch  near  Ontario,  Cal. 

He  was  a  member  of  Brothers. 


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F.RSITY 


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JAMES    CORNELIUS    WILSON. 

James  Cornelius  Wilson,  son  of  Ellwood  Wilson  (Jefferson  Medical  Coll.,  Philadelphia, 
1845)  and  Hannah  Jane  (Shallcross)  Wilson,  was  born  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  March  25,  1847. 

He  fitted  for  College  (Yale)  under  Private  Tutor  Reginald  Y.  Chase,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  '67  in  the  Fall  of  1863.  He  left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  the  first  term  of  the  Freshman 
year,  and  entered  Princeton  College,  where  he  was  graduated  in  the  Class  of  '67.  Upon 
leaving  College  he  immediately  entered  upon  the  study  of  Medicine  at  the  Jefferson  Medical 
College  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1869. 

Since  then  he  has  been  practicing  his  profession  at  Philadelphia.  He  holds  several  hos- 
pital appointments  and  the  Professorship  of  the  Practice  of  Medicine  and  Clinics  in  the 
Jefferson  Medical  College. 

His  father  was  a  physician  during  his  lifetime,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.  A.  from 
Princeton  College. 


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He  was  married  at  Philadelphia  April  13th,  1882,  to  Adele  B.  Grosholy. 

CHILDREN. 

Beatrice  Adele,  born  April  26th,  1883.  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Helen  Natalie,  born  February  26th.  1887.  Philadelphia.  Pa. 
He  was  a  member  of  Brothers. 


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STATISTICS 


CLASS  OF  SIXTY-SEVEN 


YALE 


MARRIAGES  OF  GRADUATES. 


B.  Smith, 
A.    Warren, 
H.    Weston, 

W.    B.    Davenport, 

E.  F.    Stoddard, 

C.  L.  Allen, 
W.  H.  Ingham, 

J.  F.  Merriam, 
J.  H.  Chapman, 
H.    B.    Beard, 

A.  S.  Clark, 
J.  J.  Brooks, 
M.    D.    Mann, 

F.  L.   Skeels, 

G.  P.    Wetmore, 

F.  H.   Wilson, 
H    T.    Eddy, 
I.   S.   Dodd, 

B.  Allen, 
W.  Bruce, 

L.  T.  Brown, 
Geo.   H.   Perkins, 
E.    W.    Clarke, 

E.  F.    Beecher, 

J.    W.    Hartshorn, 
A.    E.    Dunning, 
S.    Comstock, 
J.  W.   Partridge, 
H.  G.   Landis, 
W.    H.    Goodyear, 

D.  J.    Burrell, 

R.    E.    De    Forest, 

G.  A.    Adee, 

C.  B.  Jennings, 
G.  P.  Sheldon, 
W.  B.  Harding, 
Wm.  Thomsen, 
C.  T.  Collins, 
T.  Hedge,  Jr., 
Moses   Strong, 

C.    H.    Goodman, 
T.  L.  Day, 
J.    G.   Flanders, 
L.    H.    Kitchel, 
C.   S.  Walker, 
J.  H.  Tallman, 

F.  R.   S.  Drake, 

G.  L.  Wright, 


Sarah    E.    Simpson, 
Angelica  E.  Hastings, 
Emma  A.  Harrington, 
Carrie   C.    Peckham, 
Bessie    Lowe, 
Ada   L.    Russell, 
Mary  E.  Maxwell, 
Charlotte    E.    Sprague, 
Mary  J.   Cooke, 
Sarah    R.    Read, 
Nettie  A.  Piatt, 
Henrietta    Faber, 
Elizabeth    Pope, 
Ella  Van   Valkenburgh, 
Edith   M.   Keteltas, 
Emily   F.    Smith, 
Sebella   E.   Taylor, 
Louise   S.   Morley, 
Mary    V.    Price, 
Annie    A.    Becker, 
Ida   Meech, 
Mary    Farnham, 
Xellie   Green, 
S.    W.    Hiscox, 
Martha   Hitchcock, 
Harriet   W.    Wood, 
Martha  J.   Atwood, 
Mary    E.    Partridge, 
Elizabeth    B.    Hafey, 
Sarah  M.   Sanford, 
Clara   S.    De   Forest, 
Rebecca    B.    Marcy, 
Addie   P.    Stanton, 
Mary   L.    Tracy, 
Frances    A.    Pendleton, 
Sarah   L.   Houghton, 
Lena  O'Brien, 
M.  A.  Wood, 
Mary   J.    Cook, 
Julia  M.   Jones, 
Mary   S.    Scott, 
Nettie  T.    Eastman, 
Mary  C.  Fairchild, 
Mary  Durkee, 
Alice     M.     Morehouse, 
Alice    Elizabeth    Graves, 
Catherine  E.  Fyfe, 
Florence   G.    Scott, 


Highton,    Pa., 
Millbury,    Mass., 
St.  Jchnsbury,  V"t., 
Brooklyn,     N.     Y., 
Dayton,   O., 
Salem,    N.    Y., 
Easton,    Pa., 
Hudson,   N.    Y., 
Nashua,   N.   H., 
New  Haven,   Ct., 
New  Haven,  Ct., 
Pittsburg,  Pa., 
St.   Paul,   Minn., 
Cold   Water,    Mich., 
New    York    City, 
New    Haven,    Ct., 
New    Haven,    Ct., 
Manlius,   N   Y., 
St.    Louis,    Mo., 
Schodack,    N.    Y., 
Grosvenordale,    Ct., 
Galesburg,    111., 
West  Lebanon,   Ind., 
Brooklyn,    N.    Y., 
New  Haven,   Ct., 
Kingston,    N.    Y., 
Moravia,   N.   Y., 
Worcester,    Mass., 
Philadelphia,    Pa., 
New    York    City, 
Freeport,    111., 
Green    Island,    N.    Y., 
Stonington,    Ct., 
New    London,    Ct., 
Ann    Arbor,    Mich., 
Putney,    Vt., 
Portland,     Me., 
Pittsfield,    Mass., 
Burlington,    Iowa, 
Mineral    Point,    Wis., 
St.    Louis,    Mo., 
New   Haven,   Ct., 
Milwaukeee,    Wis., 
Alden,    N.    Y.. 
Darien,   Ct., 
Boston,   Mass., 
New    York    City, 
St.   Louis,   Mo., 


October  3,   1867. 
December  24,   1867. 
May   IS,    1868. 
June    4,    1868. 
November     lo,     1868 
January     13,     1869. 
January   28,    1869. 
April    7,     1869. 
May    20,    1869. 
June  23,   1869. 
August    19,    1869. 
September  2,    1869. 
November    11,    1869. 
December    22,     1869. 
December    22,     1869. 
December  27,   1869. 
January   4,    1870. 
April  28,    1870. 
June    7,    1870. 
June    29,    1870. 
August   8,    1870. 
August   10,   1870. 
September   7,    1870. 
October    6,    1870. 
October    11,    1870. 
December  4,    1870. 
December  29,    1870. 
February   14,    1871. 
April    9,     1871. 
June    30,    1871. 
October    18,    1871. 
October    18,    1871. 
December   6,    1871. 
December   21,    1871. 
July   2,    1872. 
Atigust   22,    1872. 
October     17,     1872. 
December   26,    1872. 
January  8,    1873. 
February    13,    1873. 
February   18,    1873. 
May   13,    1873. 
June    18,    1873. 
August    7,    1873. 
September    15,    1873. 
October    30,    1873.. 
April    IS,    1874. 
April    22,    1874. 


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A.   D.   Bissell, 
A.    H.    Adams, 
VV.    B.    Davenport, 
X.    P.    Hulst, 
H.    C.    Sheldon, 
J.    M.    Gamble, 
Sheldon    Reynolds, 
F.  Libbey, 
P.    R.    Taft, 
C.   L.   Morgan, 

0.  M.    Harper, 

R.   W.   Woodward, 

1.  J.  Wild, 

Wm.    H.    Goodyear, 
A.   E.  Lamb, 
F.  H.  Wilson, 
W.    H.    Morse, 
Chas.   G.    Coe, 
Chas.    K.    Cannon, 
Horatio   Seymour, 
Morton   Dexter, 
James   M.    Allen, 
J.    A.    Cartwright, 
VV.   A   Peck, 
J.    W.    Partridge, 

E.  G.    Stedman, 

F.  H.   Hathorn, 
.T.   A.    Swan, 
W.   H.   Bishop, 
Samuel    Keeler, 
Henry    A.    Chittenden, 
Geo.    P.    Sheldon, 
Chas.   B.   Jennings, 
Geo.   R.   Carrington, 
Thomas  Greenwood, 


Fanny    Casite, 
Sarah    C.    Thomas, 
Charlotte    C.    Shepherd, 
Florence   Terry, 
Louise   McLellan, 
Mary  L.   White, 
Annie    B.    Dorrance, 
Emma   Valient, 
Tillie  Hurlbert,  , 
Lucy   Phelps   Allen, 
Kathleen   T.    Ludlow, 
Sarah    C.    Day, 
Sarah    E.    Goodyear, 
Xellie   F.   M.  Johnes, 
Annie   L.    Kendall, 
Annie  E.   Palmer, 
Louise    P.    Townsend, 
Annie    A.    Karr, 
Agnes    R.    Herbert, 
Abigail  A.   Johnson, 
Emily   Loud   Sanford, 
R.    Roe. 
Mary    Hart, 
Mary  F.   Holme, 
Xellie    Barnard, 
X'ina    M.    Marcy, 
A.    Kate    Fonda, 
Jane    Parsons, 
^lary    Dearborn    Jackson, 
Arvilla    P.     Bailey, 
Mrs.   Alice  Westervelt, 
Carolyn    J.    Pendleton, 
Myra    B.    Fitch, 
Josephine   D.    Rogers, 
Mary   A.    McDermott, 


Buffalo,    X.    v., 
Stevensville,    Pa., 
Elizabeth,    X.    J., 
Milwaukee,  Wis., 
Brunswick,   Me., 
Williamsport,     Pa., 
Wilkesbarre,    Pa., 
Washington,  D.  C, 
Cincinnati,   O., 
Saybrook,    Ct., 
Philadelphia,   Pa., 
Xew    Haven,    Ct., 
Hamden,    Ct., 
Xew    York    City, 
Brooklyn,    X.    Y., 
Xew   York    City, 
Greenport,   L.    I., 
Xew   York  City, 
Hoboken,    X.    J., 
Utica.   N.    Y., 
Taunton,   Mass., 
San    Francisco,    Cal. 
X^ashville,    Tenn., 
Denver,    Col., 
Scranton,    Pa., 
Xew    York    City, 
Louisville,   Ky., 
Columbus,    O., 
X'ew    York    City, 
New   York    City, 
Xew  York  City. 
Greenwich,   Ct., 
Xew    London,    Ct., 
Xew    York    City, 
Xew    York    City, 


June    i6,    1874. 
August    31,     1874. 
September    9,    1874. 
May    13,    1875. 
September    16,    1875. 
October   21,    1875. 
November  23,    1875. 
March  22,   1876. 
December   28,    1876. 
May    17,    1877. 
Xovember    22,    1877. 
March    s,    1878. 
July  3,    1878. 
February    i,    1879. 
April    16,    1879. 
June   5,   1879. 
September   24,    1879. 
October    16,    1879. 
April   22,    1880. 
October    12,    1880. 
June    9,    1 88 1. 
December   20,    1881. 
Xovember    10,    1881. 
Xovember    16,    1882. 
September    13,     1883. 
January    15,    1884. 
October   28,    1884. 
June   4,    1885. 
July    28,    1886. 
February   8,    1888. 
June    5.     1888. 
May   21,    1890. 
August   7,    1800. 
October   15,   1890. 
February  i,   1893. 


Total    83 


MARRIAGES  OF  NON-GRADUATES. 


F.    M.    Sprague, 
J.   W.   Hobson, 
Chas.    Edwards, 
J.    H.    Miller, 
J.  F.  Bishop, 

B.  H.    Emerson, 

C.  A.    Parke, 
J.    H.    Reid, 


Abbie  R.  Fellows, 
Celia   Xixon, 
Mary  Hickok, 
Maria  A.    Creighton, 
Addie    E.    Thomas, 
Mary    Knowles, 
Xina    Dale    Owen, 
Josephine    C.    Snover, 


Hudson,  X.  Y., 
San   Francisco.   Cal., 
Springfield,    111., 
Marlboro,    Mass., 
Xew  Haven,  Ct., 
New  York  City, 
Mt.  Vernon,  Ind., 
Manhattan,  Kan., 


October    31,    1866. 
.^pril   30,    1867. 
February    18,    1868. 
April   3,   1869. 
September    i,    1869. 
December    23,    1869. 
May    7,    1870. 
July    19,    1870. 


382 


VVm.   A.   Underwood, 
Geo.    Easthurn, 
J.  T.   Van  Wyck, 

B.  F.   Khrman, 

C.  R.   Marks, 

C.    C.    Spellman, 
Lewis    C.    Nelson, 
J.  K.  H.   De  Forest, 
Tryon  H.   Edwards, 
Theodore    Crane, 
T.  H.  Rodman, 
F.    Moore, 
H.    K.   Huntington, 
Anson    P.    Tinker, 
J.    K.    H.    De   Forest, 

E.  L.  Clark, 

F.  G.    Xewlands, 
VV.    T.    Bacon, 
L.  C.  Xelson, 

J.   M.    McKinstry, 
H.   S.   Swayne, 

E.  W.   Miller, 
George   Easthurn, 
X.    A.    Chapman, 
H.   S.   Swan, 
Xathaniel   Hazard, 
\V.    A.    McKinney, 
A.    P.   Tinker, 

J.    C.    Wilson, 
A.    P.    Tinker, 

F.  G.   Newlands, 


Virginia    Garland    Deas, 
Mary   O.    Davis, 
Henrietta   \V.    Wright, 
Kate   L.   Smith, 
H.   Josephine   Kilbourn, 
Jennie    H.    Flagg, 
Alice   Estell, 
Sarah   Conklin, 
Lydia    H.    Kennedy, 
Margaret   B.   Wilmot, 
E.    Burnham    Cockle, 
Emily   S.    Parmlee, 
Frances    Figanierre, 
Martha  J.   White, 
Sarah    E.    Starr, 
Margaret   M.    Davidson, 
Clara  A.   Sharon, 
Mary    E.    Coit, 
Louise    E.    Bradford, 
Laura    M.    X'ewton, 
Sallie   W.    Davis, 
Carrie    E.    Livingston, 
Lizzie  M.   Beale, 
Mary   P.   Chapman, 
Annie    C.    C.    Shaw, 
Elizabeth    B.     Stevens, 
Mary   E.   Niven, 
Maria    Walker, 
Adele    B.    Grosholy, 
Mrs.    Kate    I^ongman, 
Edith   McAllister, 


Total    39 


Adrian,   Mich., 
Philadelphia,   Pa. 
Wappinger's  Falls,  X.  Y. 
Cincinnati,    O., 
Gt.    Barrington,    Mass., 
Springfield,    Mass., 
Howard  Co.,   Mo., 
Xew   Haven,   Ct., 
Hagerstown,   Md., 
Brooklyn,    X.    Y., 
Brooklyn,    X.    Y., 
Toledo,   O., 
Xew    York    City, 
So.    Weymouth,    Mass., 
Guilford,    Ct., 
Xew   Rochelle,   N.   Y., 
San    Francisco,   Cal., 
Hartford,  Ct., 
Ft.    Scott.,    Kan., 
Ridgefield,    Ohio, 
Bloomington,     111. 
Ada,    Mich., 
Philadelphia,    Pa., 
Englewood,    X.    J., 
Roxbury,    Mass., 
St.    Louis,    Mo., 
Syracuse,    N.    Y., 
Denver,   Col., 
Philadelphia,    Pa., 
Brooklyn,    N.    Y., 
X'^orthampton,    England, 


August     17,     1870. 
September    8,     1870. 
January    10,    1871. 
June    15,    1871. 
June    27,    1871. 
October   4,    1871. 
November   22,    1871. 
June   s,    1872. 
I'ebruary    13,    1873. 
April    30,    1873. 
June  4,    1873, 
June    II,    1873. 
September   23,    1873 
October    9,    1873. 
September    23,    1874. 
October    13,    1874. 
Xovember    19,    1874. 
June   10,    1875. 
October    1,    1875. 
November    2,    1875. 
December    22,    1875. 
July    6,    1876. 
July    12,    1876. 
December    28,    1876. 
April    17,    1877. 
September    18,    1878. 
May   6,    1880. 
September  8,    1881. 
April    13,    1882. 
November  25,   1884. 
September    4,    1888. 


CHILDREN  OF  GRADUATES. 


Walter     Chester     Warren, 
Nina  Weston, 
Mariana    A.    Stoddard, 
Christine    Lansing    Allen, 
Elizabeth    Howell    Ingham, 
Fanny    B.    Smith, 
Edith   Hoxie  Davenport, 
Helen    Sprague   Merriam, 
Helen    Mann, 

Edith  Malvina  K.  Wetmore, 
Ethel    Stoddard, 


October  26,    1868, 
May    19,    1869, 
September    30,    1869, 
October   20,    1869, 
February    19,    1870, 
May    2,    1870, 
June   8,    1870, 
September    7,     1870, 
September    12,    1870, 
September    23,    1870, 
February   6,    1871, 

383 


Millbury,    Mass. 
Ascutneyville,   Vt. 
■  Dayton.    Ohio. 
Salem,   N.  Y. 
Easton,  Pa. 
Doylestown,    Pa. 
Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 
Farmington,    Conn. 
St.   Paul,   Minn. 
Geneva,    Switzerland. 
Dayton,  Ohio. 


Joseph   Judson    Brooks, 
Kate  V.   Allen, 
Ruth  Elizabeth  Eddy, 
Waldo   Weston, 
Bertha  Wilson, 
Louise    Isabel    Beecher, 
Mary    Dodd, 

Harriet  Olmstead  Perkins, 
Harriet    Clifford   Ingham, 
Edith    Davenport    Partridge, 
Elbert   James   Clarke, 
Clara    Bertha    Bruce, 
Leonard   Atwood    Comstock, 
Harry  Westbrooke  Dunning, 
Henry   Robert   M.   Landis, 
Bessie    Sprague    Merriam, 
Beverly  Allen,   Jr., 
William   Clarence   Smith, 
Charles    Albert    Warren, 
Edward    Cornelius    Allen, 
Clara   Miriam   Burrell, 
Frederic    Marcy    DeForest, 
Harry   W.    Beard. 
Ellen    Louise   Adee, 
Charles    (Carl)    Collins, 
Nelson  D.   Skeels, 
Morton     Dexter    Dunning, 
Clare  Rodman  Beecher, 
Ethel    Mann, 

Maud  Alice  K.  Wetmore, 
Catherine    Smith    Dodd, 
Frances    Stoddard, 
Hatty  Haskel   Sheldon, 
Ruth    May    Jennings, 
John   Willard    Partridge, 
Emilv    Myrtle    Warren, 
Frank   Faber   Brooks, 
Geo.   Townsend   Adee, 
Bertha   Leland  Thomsen, 
Scott  Goodman, 
Agnes  .Mien  McCure  Strong, 
William   S.  Beard, 
William    Price   Allen, 
Herbert  T.   Smith, 
Horace   Taylor   Eddy, 
Bessie  Sargent  Burrell, 
Robert   Haney   Flanders, 
Mary  Raymond  Comstock, 
Alice  Cornelia  Kitchel, 
John  Cooke  Chapman, 


May   i8,   1871, 
June  29,   1 87 1, 
September  2,   1871, 
September  6,   1871, 
September  21,   1871, 
September    27,    1871, 
October    3,    1871, 
October    3,    :87i, 
October   6,    1871, 
November   6,    1871, 
November  6.    1871, 
November    18,    1871, 
November    21,    1871, 
December   7,    1871, 
February  3,    1872, 
March    2-j,    1872, 
April  20,    1872, 
-April  30,   1872, 
June  30,   1872, 
July    14,     18-2, 
August  6,   1872, 
August   10,    1872, 
.August    19,    1872, 
September    21,    1872, 
October  14,   1872, 
November  23,   1872, 
December   14,    1872, 
January  9,  1873, 
.January     19,     1873, 
February  7,   1873, 
February   21,    1873, 
March  6,   1873, 
April  14,  1873, 
May   9,    1873, 
May  31,  1873, 
December  5,  1873, 
December    15,    1873, 
January   4,    1874, 
January  5.   1874, 
January   24,    1874, 
Febraury   19,   1874, 
March    15,    1874, 
April    II,    1874, 
April    19,    1874, 
April   25,    1874, 
May  12,   1874, 
May   IS,    1874, 
May  28,  1874, 
June  4,   1874, 
June  17,   1874, 

384 


Cleveland,   Ohio. 
Salem,  N.  Y. 
Ithaca,   N.  Y. 
Ascutneyville,   Vt. 
Rochester,    N.    Y. 
Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 
Garnett,    Kans. 
Burlington,    Vt. 
Philadelphia,   Pa. 
New   Haven,   Conn. 
Painesville,    Ohio. 
Poughkeepsie,   N.   Y. 
Ansonia,   Conn. 
Boston,    Mass. 
Niles,   Ohio. 
Farmington,    Conn. 
St.    Louis,   Mo. 
Doylestown,   Pa. 
Spencer,  Mass. 
Salem,   N.   Y. 
Chicago,  111. 
Bridgeport,   Conn. 
Minneapolis,   Minn. 
Westchester,  N.  Y. 
New   York   City. 
Coldwater,    Mich. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 
V^ienna.   Austria. 
Paris,    France. 
Winnebago  City,  Minn. 
Daytpn,  Ohio. 
Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 
New  London,  Conn. 
New   Haven,    Conn. 
Silencer,    Mass. 
Cleveland,   Ohio. 
Stonington,    Conn. 
Baltimore,    Md. 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Mineral  Point,  Wis. 
Little  Valley,  N.  Y. 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Doylestown.  Pa. 
Princeton,  N.  J. 
Chicago.    111. 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Walton,  N.  Y. 
Olean,  N.  Y. 
Nashua,   N.   H. 


Frank  Leonard  Brown, 

Edward   Cox   Mann, 

Thomas  Hedge,  Jr. 

Elizabeth   Allen, 

Claude   Frederic  Walker, 

Frank  Courtenay   Dodd, 

Alice  Weston, 

Grace    Tallman, 

Clarence   L.    Collins, 

Eliza  May  Wright, 

Thomas  Halley  Bissell, 

Mabel   Drake, 

William  Shepard  K.  Wetmore, 

Charles   Stanton   Adee, 

Lucy  M.  Clark, 

Anna  Mary  Strong, 

Thomas   Haven   Jennings, 

Albert   Beach   Dunning, 

William  Edward  Thomsen, 

John  Lowe  Stoddard, 

Sarah  E.  Allen, 

Charles   E.    Goodman, 

Marguerite  Tyrel  Kitchel. 

Henry  Terry  Hiilst. 

Geo.   L.   Wright,   Jr. 

Annie  Van   Valkenburgh   Skeels, 

Charlotte   Bartlett   Flanders. 

David    DeForest    Burrell. 

Hattie  Betts  Comstock, 

Esther  Mabel  Eddy, 

Emma   Mann. 

Bertram   DeLancey  Drake. 

Helen    Josepha    Chapman, 

Leonard   E.  Partridge. 

Mary   Elennor   Bissell, 

Martha    W.    Gamble. 

Geo.   V.   Sheldon, 

Kenneth   Bruce, 

Lyman  Cooke  Hedge, 

Albert  Weston, 

Sarah  Adams, 

Howard  ^faxwell  Ingham, 

Clara  Lihbey, 

Henry   Farnham   Perkins, 

Mary  Terry   Collins, 

David    'Rupell    Allen, 

Harriet    Harvey   Kitchel. 

Alfred   Chanpell   Jennings, 

Dorrance    'Reynolds, 

Hurlbert  Taft, 


July   6,    :874, 
September  Si  1874, 
September   27,    1874, 
November  28,  1874, 
December  27,  1874, 
January   19,    1875, 
February  2,  1875, 
February   20,    1875, 
March  19,  1875, 
March  27,  1875, 
March  27,  1875, 
April  3,  1873, 
April  16,  187s, 
April  18,  187s, 
May  IS,  1875, 
May  19,   1875, 
July    18,    1875, 
July    31,    187;. 
September  20,   1875, 
October  12,  1875. 
November   28,    1875, 
January  ig,   1876, 
April    3,    1876. 
May  12,   1876, 
May  23.   1876, 
May  23.   1876. 
June   3,    1876. 
June  29,   1876. 
July   3.    T876, 
July   20,    1876. 
August  12,   1876, 
September   3.    1876. 
September  4.    1876. 
September   16,    1876, 
October  22,   1876. 
November  16.   1876. 
November  19,  1876. 
December  28,    1876. 
January  t6,  1877, 
January  27.   1877. 
March  13,  1877, 
April   14.   1877, 
.April  IS,  1877. 
May  10,   1877, 
May  26,   1877. 
May  20,   1877. 
August  2,  1877. 
August  17.   1877. 
September   9,    1877, 
September  20,  1877, 

3S5 


Glastonbury,   Conn. 
New  York  City. 
Burlington,   Iowa. 
Salem,  N.  Y. 
Holyoke,  Mass. 
Winnebago,   Minn. 
Ascutneyville,    Vt. 
Hartford,   Conn. 
Cleveland,  (). 
St.   Louis,   Mo. 
Buffalo,    N.    Y. 
New    York    City. 
New  York  City. 
Westchester,  N.  Y. 
Hartford,    Conn. 
Mineral   Point,   Wis. 
New    London,    Conn. 
Boston,    Mass. 
Baltimore,  Md. 
Dayton,   Ohio. 
Salem,    N.    Y. 
St.  Louis,   Mo. 
Olean,   N.   Y. 
Milwaukee,   Wis. 
St.   Louis,  Mo. 
Coldwater,    Mich. 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Chicago,    111. 
Walton,  N.  Y. 
Cincinnati.   Ohio. 
Keyport,   N.   J. 
New  York  City. 
Nashua,   N.   H. 
Greeley,   Colo. 
Buffalo.   N.   Y. 
Williamsport,    Pa. 
Brooklyn.   N.   Y. 
Poughkeepsie.   N.   Y. 
Burlington.   Iowa. 
Syracuse.    N.    Y. 
Osaka.   Janan. 
Philadelphia.  Pa. 
Washington,    D.    C. 
Burlington.   Vt. 
Cleveland,   Ohio. 
Salem,  N.   Y. 
Alden.  N.  Y. 
New  London.   Conn. 
Wilkesharre,   Pa. 
Cincinnati.  Ohio. 


Herbert    Prescott    Sheldon, 

Alice   Parker   Tallman, 

Clarence  Powell   Hulst. 

Leslie   Allen    Morgan, 

Norman  McCloud   Burrell, 

Alexander   Montgomery   Brooks, 

Ethel  Libbey, 

Robert  Griswold   DeForest, 

Arthur    Sitsgreave    Mann, 

Elizabeth   Gamble, 

Georgiana    Comstock, 

Howard    Bissell, 

Mabel   Esther  Clark, 

Kent  Flanders, 

Carrie   Stoddard, 

Mary   Ludlow   Harper, 

Charles  Moorehouse  Walker. 

Joseph  Goodyear  Wild, 

Mary   Phelps   Morgan, 

Emily   Kittredge   Chapman, 

Harold    Richardson    Harding, 

Nellie   G.    Clarke, 

Arthur   Herman    Adams, 

Mary    L.    Skeels, 

Ethel   Louise    Dodd, 

Henrietta    E.    Woodward, 

Mary  Lord  Goodyear, 

Florence  Wilson, 

Emily    May    Libbey, 

Isabel   White   Gamble, 

Alice  Jennings, 

Ernest   McLellan   Sheldon, 

James     Comstock, 

Raymond  Bissell, 

Arthur    Morris    Collins, 

Mabel    Townsend   Morse, 

Grace  Flanders, 

Juliet    Stanton   Adee, 

C.  L.  Allen.  Jr. 

Garrit    S.    Cannon,    Jr. 

Paul   Ford  Mann, 

Catherine    F.    Goodyear, 

Rliza    Robinson    Morgan, 

Kmilv  Beekman  Dunning, 

Blanche  H.   Harding, 

Marion    Tallman, 

Eleanor    L.    Burrell. 

Mary  Ledyard  Seymour, 

Wm.  Kendall  Lamb, 

Robt.   Maxwell  Ingham, 


November  4,    1877, 
November  23,   1877, 
February   i,   1878, 
March  4,    1878, 
March  6,   1878, 
May    18,    1878, 
June  5,   1878, 
August  7,  1878, 
August  18,   1878, 
September    4,    1878, 
September    9,    1878, 
September    30,    1878, 
October  3,   1878, 
December  3,   1878, 
January    i,    1879, 
February  9,    1879, 
March   13,   1879, 
May  17,   1879, 
Tune   10,   1879, 
June  14,   1879, 
June   30,    1879, 
August  I,  1879, 
August  8,  1879, 
August  24,   1879, 
August   25.    1879. 
September   20.    1879, 
October   31.    1879. 
May  8,   1880. 
June   15.   t88o, 
July   3.    1880. 
July  7,   1880, 
July   10,    1880. 
August    7.    1880, 
October   26,    1880, 
November  4,  1880. 
November    15,    1880, 
November   27.    1880, 
January    3.    1881, 
January   8.    1881, 
February   3,    1881. 
Febraury   12,   1881, 
March    18.    1881, 
Anril   21,    1881, 
June  21,  1881, 
July  6,  t88i, 
.'\ugust  7.  i88t. 
August   12,   i88i. 
September  10.  1881, 
October   12.   1 88 1, 
December   13,   1881, 

386 


Newton,    Mass. 
Hartford,    Conn. 
Milwaukee,   Wis. 
Saybrook,    Conn. 
Dubuque,    Iowa. 
Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Washington,    D.    C. 
Bridgeport,    Conn. 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Williamsport,  Pa. 
Walton,    N.    Y. 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Hartford,  Conn. 
Milwaukee,    Wis. 
Dayton,   Ohio. 
Pittsburg,    Pa. 
South    Amherst.    Mass. 
New   Haven,    Conn. 
Saybrook,    Conn. 
Nashua,    N.    H. 
Hatfield,  Mass. 
Grinnell.  Iowa. 
Nordoff,    Cal. 
Coldwater,   Mich. 
Riverdale.   N.  Y. 
Ouray,   Colo. 
New  York  City. 
New  York  City. 
Washington,   D.    C. 
Williamsport,  Pa. 
New  London,   Conn. 
Newton,   Mass. 
Walton,  N.  Y. 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Cleveland,   Ohio. 
Brooklyn,  N.   Y. 
^lilwaukee.    Wis. 
Westchester,  N.  Y. 
Salem.  N.  Y. 
Hoboken,  N.  J. 
Buffalo.  N.  Y. 
New   York   City. 
Saybrook,    Conn. 
Boston,   Mass. 
Hatfield,    Mass. 
Hartford,    Conn. 
Dubuque.  Towa. 
Madison,    Wis. 
Brooklyn.   N.   Y. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 


Rogers  P.   D.   K.   Wetmore, 

Sarah   E.    Clark, 

Mary    E.    Cartwright, 

Ethel    Wilson, 

Florence   Libbey, 

Marjory   Morton   Dexter, 

Jocelyn  Plant  Wild, 

Harriet    Elizabeth    Allen, 

Florence    Davenport, 

Roger   Yale   Flanders, 

Anna  Louise  Hedge, 

James   Gamble, 

Lucy  Kathleen  Harding, 

Kathleen   T.   L.   Harper, 

Malcolm  Bruce. 

Minnie  B.  Beard, 

Charles  William  H.  Goodyear, 

Marie  Louise  Townsend  Morse, 

Bella  V.   Allen, 

Horatio    Seymour,   Jr., 

Arthur    D.    Bissell, 

Agnes  H.  Cannon, 

John    Bellows    DeForest, 

Lauriza  A.  Cartwright, 

Ruth   Marie   .\llen, 

Joshua    T.    Brooks, 

Matthew   D.   Mann,  Jr., 

Henry   Holme   Peck, 

Alfred    Thomas   Comstock, 

Edward   Lamb, 

Mary    Barnard    Partridge, 

Alfred   Nelson   Hulst, 

Helen   Wilson. 

Jane  Eleanor  Goodyear, 

Malcolm  B.  Harding, 
Henry  Lorrain  Hedge, 

Francis  F.   Allen, 

Isabella  Jeanette  Bissell, 

Helen    T.    Cartwright. 

Allen  Newhall   Mann, 

Rosalie   Heaton    Goodyear. 

Palmer    Wilson, 

Mary  Dexter, 

Ralph  Llewellyn   Partridge, 

John   Armstrong  Gamble, 

Beatrice   Emogene    Eddy, 

Morris    Byng   Clark. 

Helen   Thomsen. 

William  Adorno  Peck,  Jr., 

Grace  Lamb, 


March   13,    1882, 
June  II,  1882, 
July   25,    1882, 
August  24,   1882, 
August  25,   1882, 
September   4,    1882, 
September  28,  1882, 
October  28,   1882, 
November   i,    1882, 
November    12,    1882, 
December  6,    1882, 
December    19,    1882, 
December   19,    1882, 
December    30,    1882, 
April    5,    1883, 
April   25,    1883, 
June   3,    1883, 
.Tune   27,    1883, 
July   I,   1883. 
July   14,   1883, 
July  25,    1883, 
July  27,   1883, 
September  13,   1883, 
October    19,    1883, 
February   2,    1884, 
February  27,  1884. 
April  II,   1884, 
April   23,    1884, 
June   13,    1884, 
June   27,    1884. 
August  6,  1884, 
August    17,    1884. 
.\ugust  23,    1884. 
November    20.    1884, 
March   29,    1885, 
June    IS,    1885, 
January    i,    1886. 
March  11,  1886, 
June   13,    1886, 
July  3,   1886. 
July  12,  1886, 
August  4,  1886. 
August  12,  1886. 
October  30,   1886. 
November  24,   1886, 
December  10,  1886. 
December    18,    1S86, 
December   26,    1886, 
August    ■;.    1887. 
September   t6,   1887, 

387 


Paris,  France. 
Hartford,    Conn. 
Nashville,   Tenn. 
Brooklyn,   N.   Y. 
Washington,   D.   C. 
Boston,   Mass. 
New   Haven,    Conn. 
San   Francisco,   Ca'. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Burlington,    Iowa. 
Williamsport,  Pa. 
Hatfield,    Mass. 
Pittsburg,    Pa. 
Minneapolis,    Minn. 
Poughkeepsie,   N.   Y. 
New    York    City. 
Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 
Salem,  N.  Y. 
Marquette,   Mich. 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Hoboken,    N.    J. 

Bridegport,  Conn. 

Nashville,  Tenn. 

San   Francisco,   Cal. 

Pittsburg,    Pa. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Denver,   Colo. 

Walton,  N.  Y. 

Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 

Ft.   Collins,   Colo. 

Milwaukee,    Wis. 

New  York  City. 

New  York  City. 

Hatfield,    Mass. 

Burlington.    Iowa. 

San    Francisco,    Cal. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Nashville,  Tenn. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

New  York  Citv. 

Brooklyn.   N.   Y. 

Boston,   Mass. 

Ft.   Collins,  Colo. 

Williamsport.   Pa. 

Cincinnati.    Ohio. 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Baltimore.  Md. 

Denver,   Colo. 

Brooklyn,   N.   Y. 


Gertrude  Townsend  Morse, 
Henry   Hart   Cartwright, 
Gertrude    Wilson, 
Helen   Frances  Eddy, 
Duquesne  Bishop, 
James   Kirke  Allen, 
Florence    Fonda    Hathorn, 
Mildred  Armstrong  Peck, 
Margaret  S.   Cartwright, 
Clara  Adelaide   Allen, 
Katharine  DeForest  Burrell, 
Gano    Westervelt    Chittenden, 
Constance   Woolston   Allen, 
Alice   Wilson, 
Julian   B.    Bishop, 
Guier   Scott   Wright, 
Lloyd   Bissell, 
Jacob   A.    Cartwright, 

Total    22Q 


November   ii,   1887, 
January    14,    1888, 
June  22,   1888, 
July  23,   1888, 
December  3,   1888, 
March  23,    1889, 
April   7,   1889, 
June    18,    1889, 
March   26,    1890, 
April   10,   1890, 
August  18,  1890, 
November  9,  1890, 
November    25,    1890, 
January    12,    1891, 
June   18,   1891, 
July   31,    1891, 
August    12,    1 89 1, 
April   30,    1892, 


Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 
Nashville,    Tenn. 
Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 
Guilford,  Conn. 
Paris,  France. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Saratoga  Springs,   N.   Y. 
Denver,   Colo. 
Nashville,    Tenn. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Minneapolis,    Minn. 
Salem,   N.   Y. 
New  York  City. 
Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 
New  York  City. 
St.     Louis,  Mo. 
Buffalo,    N.    Y. 
Nashville,  Tenn. 


CHILDREN  OF  NON-GRADUATES. 


Charlotte  C.  Sprague, 
Caroline  Dale  Owen  Parke, 
Edward   Snover  Reid, 
Rill  Bishop, 
Anna  S.  Van  Wyck, 
Louise  Smith  Ehrman, 
Holmes  Davis  Eastburn, 
Emma   Merriam    Sprague, 
Brown   Emerson, 
Florence    Edwards, 
Ada   Owen   Parke, 
Elizabeth  Van  Wyck, 
Charles  Flagg  Spellman, 
Katharine  H.   Edwards, 
James   Arthur   Emerson, 
Russell  Almeron   Marks, 
Bessie   B.   Rodman, 
Abraham  J.   Van   W^yck, 
Catherine  Watson  Tinker, 
Julius   L.    Parke, 
Laura    Moore, 
Sarah  H.   Crane, 
Mamie  H.  K.   Edwards, 
Edith    Marion    Newlands, 


December   24,    1869, 
June  8,  1870, 
April    18,    1 87 1, 
May  29,   1871, 
December  5,   1871, 
April  7,   1872, 
May   IS,    1872, 
June   15,   1872, 
July   II,   1872, 
October  26,  1872, 
December   16,    1872, 
February    15,    1873, 
November   30,    1873, 
December    7,     1873, 
February    23,    1874, 
March    2,    1874, 
May  3,  1874, 
May  26,   1874, 
July  26,  1874, 
November   10,   1874, 
January    19,    187s, 
February   21,    1875, 
July  6.    1875, 
August    10,    1875, 

388 


Hudson,   N.   Y. 
New  Harmony,  Ind. 
Manhattan,    Kan. 
New    Haven,    Conn. 
Wappinger's  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Worcester,     Mass. 
New  York   City, 
Springfield,   111. 
Mt  Vernon,  Ind. 
Wappinger's  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Springfield,    Mass. 
Hagerstown,  Md. 
Ridgebury,    N.    Y. 
Sioux    City,    Iowa. 
Brooklyn,    N.   Y. 
Wappinger's  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Auburn,    Me. 
Mount    Vernon,    Ind. 
Saginaw,    Mich. 
Savannah,    Ga. 
Hagerstown,   Md. 
San   Francisco,   Cal. 


Lucretia    Davidson    Clark, 
James   M.   Nelson,   Jr., 
Janet   Newlands, 
Constant    Marks, 
Chauncey    Brewster   Tinker, 
George   Eastburn,  Jr., 
Franklin  Moore, 
Lydia    H.    K.    Edwards, 
Lebbeus   Chapman, 
Agnes  Grant   Eastburn, 
Frances    Clara     Newlands, 
Lewis    C.    Nelson, 
Thos.    H.    Rodman, 
Margaret  Moore, 
Allen  A.  Chapman, 
Grace  Hazard, 
Tryon    P.    Edwards, 
Bessie  N.  McKinney, 
Theodore   Crane, 
Bessie    Spellman, 
Sharon  Newlands, 
Lucy  Page  Emerson, 
Nathaniel   Hazard, 
Beatrice  Adele  Wilson, 
Laura  L.   Miller, 
Emily  Moore, 

Edith  Van  Buren  Chapman, 
Elinor   S.    Rodman, 
Charlotte   N.    McKinney, 
Helen  Natalie  Wilson, 
Alice   Frederieka  Wesson, 
Josephine    Lorena    Marks, 
Hall  McAllister  Newlands, 
John   Cutler   Newlands, 

Total    58. 


September  26,   1875, 
March  7,   1876, 
September  4.,   1876, 
September  29,  1876, 
October  22,   1876, 
August  31,    1877, 
September  6,    1877, 
April   20,    1878, 
October   6,    1878, 
October  16,  1878, 
October    18,    1878, 
October    20,    1878, 
June  5,    1879, 
November  28,   1879, 
April   23,    1880, 
September  20,    1880, 
October   24,    1880, 
June  8,   1881, 
July  2,   1881, 
October  6,    1881, 
February   17,   1882, 
June    13,    1882, 
November  7,   1882, 
April   26,    1883, 
November  12,  1883, 
January  4,  1885, 
September   10,   1885, 
July   8,    1886, 
November   12,    1886, 
February    26,     1887, 
October    16,    1887, 
December   8,    1887, 
February    15,     1890, 
December  7,    1893, 


Adrian,    Mich. 
Fort  Scott,  Kan. 
San   Francisco,   Cal. 
Sioux     City,     Iowa. 
Auburn,   Me. 
Philadelphia,    Pa. 
St.    Clair,    Mich. 
Hagerstown,    Md. 
Englewood,   N.  J. 
Philadelphia,   Pa. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 
St.   Louis,   Mo. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
St.    Clair,    Mich. 
Englewood,  N.  J. 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Hagerstown,  Md. 
Binghamton,    N.    Y. 
Morristown,   N.   J. 
Springfield,   Mass. 
San    Francisco.    Cal. 
Philadelphia.   Pa. 
St.    Louis.    Mo. 
Philadelphia,    Pa. 
Clinton,    Mich. 
St.   Clair,  Mich. 
Englewood.  N.  J. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Binghamton,  N.  Y. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Brooklyn.  N.  Y. 
Sioux    City,    Iowa. 
Washington,    D.    C. 
Washington,  D.  C. 


.389 


OBITUARY  RECORD. 


Ernest   Robinson, 
Beverly  Allen, 
A-lexander   Johnston, 
Henry    Weyman    Walker, 
Moses    Strong,    Jr., 
Henry  W.   Payne, 
VV'm.   L.   Stevenson, 
Arthur    H.    Adams, 
Wm.   E.   Bliss, 
Leonard    T.    Brown, 
Thomas  Allyn, 
Elbert    W.    Clarke, 
Charles  T.  Collins, 
Theodore  L.   Day, 
Harry    G.    Landis, 
C.    Wyllys    Betts, 

E.  Fowler  Stoddard, 
Louis   L.    Palmer, 

F.  R.    S.    Drake, 
James  M.   Gamble, 
John  \V.   Partridge, 
Peter   R.   Taft, 
Frank   D.    Skeels, 
Thomas   Greenwood, 
S.    Reynolds, 
Charles    L.    Morgan, 
Geo.    L.    \A'^right, 
Edwin   S.   Butterfield, 
John   Jay    DuBois, 

J.   Alexander   Moore, 
John  W.   Showalter, 

Total 31 


GRADUATES. 

November    18,    1870, 
January  26,   1876, 
May    5,    1876, 
August  16,   1876, 
August    18,    1877, 
February  8,    1878, 
July  — ,    1879, 
November   14,   1879, 
December    12,    1880, 
December    28,    1880, 
August   — ,    1882, 
September  24,   1882, 
December    21,    1883, 
June   27,    1885, 
May   22,    1886, 
April  27,   1887, 
May   31,    X887, 
May  31,   1887, 
March   9,    1888, 
July   16,    1888, 
February  25.   1889, 
June    3,    1889, 
February    17,    1891, 
June    2,    1894. 
February  8,  1895, 
May    10,    189s, 
November  7,   1897, 
December   7,    1897, 
November  11,  1898, 
November    29,    1898, 
December   10,    1898, 


New  Haven,  Conn. 
St.    Louis,    Mo. 
Somerville,    Mass. 
New    York    City. 
Stevens    Point,    Wis. 
Mentone,    France. 
Pittsburg,   Pa. 
Steamer  City  of  Pekin. 
New    York    City. 
Brooklyn,   N.   Y. 
Bonn,  Germany. 
Grinnell,    Iowa. 
New   York   City. 
South    Farmington,    Mass. 
Philadelphia,    Pa. 
New  York  City. 
Dayton,   Ohio. 
Stonington,    Conn. 
New  York  City. 
Williamsport,    Pa. 
Ft.    Collins,    Colo. 
Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Coldwater.    Mich. 
New   York    City. 
Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y. 
New    York    City. 
Auburn,   N.   Y. 
Montrose,  Pa. 
Lakewood,  N.  J. 
Helena,   Mont. 
Chicago,  111. 


390 


Carrie  C.  Davenport, 
Kmily  F.   Wilson, 
Sarah    S.    Goodyear, 
Mary   S.    Strong, 
Mary    E.    Partridge, 
Clara  Adelaide  Newlands, 
Sarah  E.  Wild, 
Mary   S.   Goodman, 
Frances  A.   Sheldon, 
Mary  F.  Jennings, 
Martha  J.  Comstock, 
Mary   Price   Allen, 
Agnes  Herbert  Cannon, 

Total    13. 


WIVES  OF  GRADUATES. 

December    11,    187 1, 
April   14,   1872, 
January    10,    1878, 
January  4,   1879, 
July    19,    1879, 
February   18,    1882, 
October  11,   1882, 
August    12,    1885, 
September  23,   188.S, 
February  23,   1889, 
May  6,    1894, 
January  11,  1897, 
March  22,   1897, 


Brooklyn,    \.    Y. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
New  York  City. 
Mineral    Point,    Wis. 
Canon   City,   Colo. 
San    Francisco,    Cal. 
Xew     Haven,     Conn. 
St.   Louis,  Mo. 
Greenwich,   Conn. 
New   London,    Conn. 
Danbury,  Conn. 
St.    Louis,    Mo. 
Hoboken,    N.    J. 


CHILDREN  OF  GRADUATES. 


Mariana   A.    Stoddard, 

Edith   Hoxie   Davenport, 

Harry  W.   Beard, 

Robert   Haney   Flanders, 

Alice  Cornelia  Kitchel, 

John    Willard    Partridge, 

Harriet   Olmsted   Perkins, 

Emma  Mann, 

Clara   Libbey, 

Geo.  L.  Wright,  Jr., 

Agnes  Allen  McCure  Strong, 

Harriet  Harvey  Kitchel, 

Leonard    E.    Partridge, 

Henrietta   E.   Woodward, 

Elizabeth    Gamble, 

Clara   Miriam   Burrell, 

Mabel  Towsend  Morse, 

Grace    Flanders, 

Elizabeth   Allen. 

C.  L.  Allen.  Jr. 

Florence   Davenport, 

Scott    Goodman, 

Sarah  Adams, 

William    Kendall    Lamb, 

Ethel    Wilson. 

Lucy    Kathleen    Harding, 

Bella  V.   Allen, 


April  6,   1870, 
June  s,  1872, 
September  10,  1872, 
August  8,  1874, 
May  2,   1875, 
May  6,    1875, 
December    6,    1876, 
February  28,   1877, 
April   19,   1877, 
July   10,   1877, 
January  4,  1878, 
August  6,  1878, 
June  16,   1879, 
December  14,  1879, 
February  27,   1880, 
July   7,    1880, 
December   13,    1880, 
June  8,   1881, 
October   6,    1881, 
April  2,  1882, 
May  29,    1882, 
January  19,   1883, 
February  21,   1883, 
March   20,    1883, 
May  9.   1883, 
October    11,    1883, 
May  5,   1886, 


Dayton,  O. 
Brooklyn,  X.  Y. 
Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Milwaukee,   Wis. 
Olean,    N.   Y. 
Greeley,   Colo. 
3urlington,   Vt. 
IJuffalo,    N.    Y. 
Washington,   D.   C. 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Mineral    Point,   Wis. 
Mount   Calm,   Texas. 
Greeley,    Colo. 
Ouray,   Colo. 
Williamsport,    Pa. 
Dubuque,  Iowa. 
Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Salem,  N.  Y. 
Salem,   N.   Y. 
Brooklyn,   N.   Y. 
St.    Louis,    Mo. 
Stevensville.   Pa. 
Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 
Brooklyn,    X.    Y. 
Salem,   N.   Y. 
Salem.   X.   Y. 


391 


Helen  Mann, 

John    Armstrong   Gamble, 

Palmer   Wilson, 

Henry    Holme    Peck, 

Christine   Lansing  Allen, 

Edward   Lamb, 

Katharine   DeForest   Burrell, 

Nelson    D.    Skeels, 

Alice  Wilson, 

Duquesne  Bishop, 

Anna    V.    Skeels, 

Thomas  Halley  Bissell, 

Total    39. 


September    3,    1887, 
March  16,   1888, 
July   17,    1888, 
February  2,   1890, 
July   18,   1890, 
Xovember  27,   1891, 
December  24,  1891, 
March    15,    1892, 
May  ^9,    1893, 
Xovember  25,   1894, 
January  5,    1895, 
December   21,    1897, 


St.   Paul,   Minn. 
Williamsport,    Pa. 
Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 
Denver  Colo. 
Salem,  N.  Y. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
New  York  City. 
Coldwater,  Mich. 
Brooklyn,     X.     Y. 
\ew  Haven.   Conn. 
Coldwater,     Mich. 
Buffalo,   X.   Y. 


Melzar  Franklin  Bartlett, 
Clarence    Darling, 
Edwin   Clarke   Pratt, 
Walter   Tilly   Foster, 
Harpin   Meigs   Lum, 
Samuel  Dyer  Allen, 
Bradford   M.    C.    Durfee, 
Josiah  Lee. 
Joseph   H.   Reid, 
^^'^m.   Capron  Jennings, 
Jno.   F.   Bishop, 
A.   P.  Tinker. 
Theodore    Crane, 
Geo.  K.  Sistare,  Jr., 
Thos.   H.   Rodman, 
Henry   Stuart   Swayne, 
Henry   Kent   Huntington, 
Geo.   J.    Plant, 

Total    18 


NON-GRADUATES. 

January    27,    1864, 
July    12,    1864, 
June   10,    1865, 
July    8,    1865, 
August    30,    1866, 
December    14,    1866, 
September  21,    1872, 
January   11,    1873, 
September    11,    1877, 
April  5,  1881, 
January    12,    1883, 
Xovember  24,   1886, 
December   14,    1886, 
June  2,   1892, 
October  29,  1893, 
November    25,    1S93, 
February  28,  1897, 
April  30,   1897, 


New  Haven.   Conn. 
Xew   York   City. 
Xew   Hartford,    Conn. 
Panama,   Central  America. 
Prairie  du  Chien,  Wis. 
Boiling   Springs,   W.   Va. 
Fall   River,  Mass. 
Baltimore,    Md. 
Vassar,    Mich. 
Detroit,    Mich. 
Xew  Haven.  Conn. 
Denver,   Colo. 
Xew    York    City. 
New  York  City. 
Brooklyn,    X.    Y. 
Bloomington.  HI. 
New    Rochelle,    X.    Y. 
St.   Louis.   Mo. 


WIVES  OF  NON-GRADUATES. 


Kate   L.    Ehrntan, 
Alice    Xelson, 
Sarah   C.    DeForest, 
Mary   O.   Eastburn, 
Addie   E.   Bishop, 
Martha  J.  Tinker, 


April    18,    1872, 
May  23,    1872, 
March  iq,  1873. 
May  8,    1873, 
December  6,  1876, 
January   20,    1880, 


Cincinnati,    Ohio. 
Fort   Scott,   Kan. 
Mount  Carmel,  Conn. 
Philadelphia,   Pa. 
Xew   Haven.   Conn. 
Denver,    Colo. 


392 


Clara   A.    Newlands, 
Lydia   H.    Edwards, 
Maria    W.    Tinker, 
Margaret   B.    Crane, 
Annie  Shaw  Swan, 

Total    II. 


February  17,  1882 
March   19,   1882, 
May   12,   1882, 
May   7,    1887, 
October  11,  1891, 


San   Francisco,   Cal. 
Hagerstown,    Md. 
Denver,    Colo. 
New   York   City. 
Bristol,     R.     I. 


CHILDREN  OF  NON-GRADUATES. 


Brown   Emerson, 
Florence   Edwards, 
Sharon  Newlands, 
Bessie  Niven   McKinney, 
Thomas  Harvey  Rodman, 
Lewis  C.   Nelson, 
Allen  A.   Chapman, 
Hall   McAllister   Newlands, 
Nathaniel   Hazard, 
John  Cutler  Newlands, 

Total    10. 


April   21,    1873, 
February  21,    1877, 
February    17,    1882, 
July  20,   1882, 
May   13,   1883, 
December  2,  1883, 
November  28,   1891, 
February   11,   1892, 
March    16,     1893, 
December  8,   1893, 


Peekskill,   N.  Y. 
Springfield,    111. 
San    Francisco,    Cal. 
Binghamton,   N.    Y. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
St.   Louis,   Mo. 
Englewood,  N.  J. 
Washington,    D.    C. 
St.    Louis,    Mo. 
Chevy   Chase,   Md. 


VITAL  STATISTICS, 

Months  of  the  Year  in  which  the  Graduates  and  Non-Graduates  were  Bom. 

Born   in   January. — T.   Allyn,    Beard,   W.    H.    Bishop,    Bissell,    Cleveland,    Dunning,    Libbey,    McKenney, 
J.  H.  Miller,  Morse,  Porter,  Rodman,  Skeels,  Seymour,  G.  P.   Sheldon. 

Graduates,    11;    Non-Graduates,   4.  Total,     15 

Born    in    February. — R.    E.    De    Forest,    T.    H.    Edzvardi     Harding,    Hulst,    Manierre,    Plant,    Reynolds, 

Showalter,  Warren,  F.  H.  Wilson. 

Graduates,   7;   Non-Graduates,   3.  Total,     10 

Born   in   March. — J.    M.   Allen,   S.   D.   Allen.   Beecher,    Comstock,    Davenport,    Dodd,   Ehrman,   Hunting- 
ton, Payne,  H.  C.  Sheldon,  Van  Wyck.  H.  W.  Walker,  /.  C.   Wilson. 

Graduates,  8;   Non-Graduates,   5.  Total,     13 

Born  in  April. — Adee,  Benedict,   A.    B.   Brown,   Chittenden,   E.   L.   Clark,   Goodyear,   Maghec.  Marks,  J. 

A.    Moore,    Spencer,    Wright. 

Graduates,  7;  Non-Graduates,  4.  Total,     11 

Born  in  May. — Hazard.   Hobson,   Merriam,   Morgan.  Parke.   C.   E.   Smith,   Taft,   Vincent. 

Graduates,     4;     Non-Graduates,     4.  Total,       8 


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Born  in  June.— Allison,  Bigler.  J.  F.  Bishop.  J.  K.  H.  De  Forest,  Du  Bois,  Durfee,  Eddy,  Hart,  Harts- 
horn,   Hathorn,    Hedge,    Landis,    Strong,    Swayne,    Tallman,    Thomsen. 

Graduates,     ii;     Non-Graduates,     5.  Total       16 

Born   in  July.— Baldwin,   Bliss,   A^.   A.   Chapman,    Dexter,   C.   Edwards,   C.    B.   Jennings,    Mann,    Palmer! 

Sterling,  Stoddard. 

Graduates,   7;   Non-Graduates,   3.  Total      10 

Born    in   August.— C.    L.    Allen,    Bacon,   Bartlett,    Betts,    Burrell,    Coe,    Drake,   Emerson,    Goodman,    Mc- 

Kinney,  Newlands,   B.   Smith,   Turrell,    Wesson,  Wetmore,  Wild. 

Graduates,     10;     Non-Graduates,    6.  Total,     16 

Born  in  September.— J.  H.  Chapman,  Day,  Elmer.  Gamble,  Harper,  Hildeburn,   W.  C.  Jennings,  Mastin, 

F.   Moore,   Nelson,      Partridge,    Perkins,   Shields,   J.    A.    Swan. 

Graduates,  7;  Non-Graduates,  7.  Total,     14 

Born  in  October. — B.  Allen,  Budington,  Collins,  Crane,  Curtis,  Darling,  Dunbar,  Johnston,  Marr,  E.  W. 
Miller.   Small,   Stedmnn, Tinker,  C.  S.  Walker,  Weston. 

Graduates,  8;  Non-Graduates,  7.  Totai,     15 

Born  in  November. — Adams,  Brainerd,   Brooks,   Brother,   Bruce,   Cannon,   Carrington,   Cartwright,   A.    S. 

Clark,    E.   W.    Clarke,   Eastburn,   Foster.   Greenwood,    Keeler,    Kitchel,   Lamb,   Lutn,   McKinstry, 

Peck,  Sprague,   Underwood. 

Graduates,    15;    Non-Graduates,    6.  Total,     21 

Born   in    December. — L.    T.    Brown,    Butterfield,    Elliot,    Flanders,   Fowler,    Ingham,    Lee,    Nolen,    Pratt, 

Reid,   Robinson,  Spellman,   Stevenson,  H.  S.  Swan,   Van  Schoonhoven,  Woodward. 

Graduates,  9;  Non-Graduates,  7.  Total,     16 


PLACE  OF  BIRTHS— GRADUATES. 

New  York. — Adee,  C.  L.  Allen,  Betts,  Bissell,  Bliss,  Bruce,  Carrington,  E.  W.  Clarke,  Curtis,  Davenport, 
Goodman,    Hathorn,    Kulst,    Mann,    Morgan,    Morse,    Seymour,   G.    P.    Sheldon,    H.    C.    Sheldon, 

Small,   Spencer,  H.   W.   Walker,   Wild,  F.   H.   Wilson,   Wright 25 

Connecticut. — T.    Allyn,    Beard,    Bishop,    L.    T.    Brown,    Chittenden,    Coe,    Collins,    Comstock;    R.    E.    De 
Forest,     Drake,   Dunning,   Elliot,   Goodyear,   Hart,   Hartshorn,   Keeler,   Kitchel,   Peck,   Robinson, 

Stedman,     Tallman,     Woodward 22 

Pennsylvania. — Alison,   Burrell,   Butterfield,   Gamble,   Harper,   Ingham,  Johnston,   Landis,   Reynolds,   B. 

Smith,   Stevenson,  Turrell,  Vincent 22 

Ohio.— Adams,  J.  M.  Allen,  Baldwin,  Brooks,  Du  Bois,  Payne,  Stoddard,  J.  A.  Swan,  Taft,  C.  S.  Walker.      10 

Massachusetts. — Beecher,   Day,   Eddy,  Lamb,   Merriam,   Nolen,   Partridge,   Perkins,  Warren 9 

New    Hampshire. — J.    H.    Chapman,    Dexter,    Flanders 3 

Vermont. — Brainerd,     Harding,     Weston 3 

England. — A.    S.    Clarke,    Wetmore 2 

Maryland. — Thomsen      i 

New    Jersey. — Cannon,    Dodd 2 

Rhode    Island. — Greenwood,    Palmer 2 

Alabama. — C.    B.    Jennings 

Delaware. — Porter      

Dist.     Columbia. — Libbey 

Danish   West    Indies. — J.    A.    Moore 

Iowa. — Hedge     

Kentucky. — Showalter    

Louisiana. — Brother     

394 


Maine. — A.   R.  Brown i 

Michigan. — Skeels     i 

Missouri. — B.     Allen i 

Tennessee — Cartwright     i 

Wisconsin. — Strong     i 

Total 1 04 

NON-GRADUATES. 

New  York. — Cleveland,  Crane,  Darling,  Foster;  W.  C.  Jennings,  McKinney,  Marks,  Rodman,  C.  E.  Smith, 

Sterling,   Van   Schoonhoven,   Van  Wyck,   Wesson 13 

Connecticut. — Bacon,  Bartlett,  Benedict,  J.  F.  Bishop,  J.  K.  H.  De  Forest,  T.  H.  Edwards,  Elmer,  Hunt- 
ington,  Luni,   McKenney,   McKinstry,   Pratt,   Tinker 13 

Pennsylvania. — Bigler,   Eastburn,   Ehrman,   Emerson.   Hildeburn,  J.    C.   Wilson 6 

Massachusetts. — Budington,   Durfee,   Fowler,  J.   H.   Miller,   Spellman,   Sprague 6 

Illinois. — C.    Edwards,    Hazard,    Manierre,    Mastin    4 

Michigan. — E.   L.   Clark,   F.   Moore,   Reid,   Underwood 4 

Indiana. — Maghee,    Parke     2 

Maine. — Hobson,     H.     S.     Swan 2 

Missouri. — Nelson,     Plant     2 

New    Jersey. — Dunbar,     Shields 2 

Maryland. — Lee,    N.    A.    Chapman     2 

Mississippi. — Newlands     

Ohio. — Swayne     

Rhode   Island.— S.    D.    Allen 

Vermont. — E.     W.     Miller 

VVisconsin. — Marr     

Total       61 


TIME  OF  BIRTH— GRADUATES. 

1837.     Carrington     i 

1 839.  Spencer     t 

1840.  Butterfield,  A.  S.  Clark,  Hartshorn,  B.  Smith 4 

1841.  Harding,    Weston    2 

1842.  Curtis,    Dodd,    Greenwood,    Wild    4 

1843.  Lamb.   Stevenson,   F.  H.  Wilson,  Wright    4 

1844.  B.  Allen,  J.  M.  Allen,  Beard,  Bissell,  Brother,  Bruce,  Burrell,  Cartwright,  J.  H.  Chapman, 
Comstock,  Dunning,  Eddy,  Flanders,  Goodman,  Hedge,  Hulst,  Ingham,  Johnston,  Partridge, 
Peck,   Perkins,   Reynolds,   Seymour,   Showalter,   J.   A.    Swan,   Warren 26 

1845.  Alison,  T.  Allyn,  Betts,  Brainerd,  Brooks,  A.  B.  Brown,  E.  W.  Clarke,  Collins,  Day,  R.  E.  De 
Forest,  Gamble,  Hart,  C.  B.  Jennings,  Keeler,  Kitchel,  Mann,  Merriam,  Noleti,  Palmer,  Payne, 
Porter,   Robinson,  H.   C.   Sheldon,   Stedman,   Stoddard,  Turrell,   Vincent,   H.   W.   Walker 28 

1846.  Baldwin,  Beecher,  Bliss,  L.  T.  Brown,  Cannon,  Chittenden,  Coe,  Dexter,  Drake,  Du  Bois,  Elliot, 
Goodyear,  Harper,  J.  A.  Moore,  Morse,  Skeels,  Strong,  Taft,  Thomsen,  C.  S.  Walker,  Wetmore, 
Woodward      22 

395 


1 847-     Adams,  Adee,   C   L.   Allen,   Bishop,   Davenport,   Hathorn,   Libby,   Morgan,   G.    P.   Sheldon,   Small, 

Tallman      

1 848.     Landis     

Total       77: 

104 

NON-GRAX)UATES. 

1838. — Geo.     Eastburn ^ 

1 840. — Foster,     Pratt 2 

1841. — Marks,    Mastin,    Sprague , 

1842.— J.   H.    Miller,   Raid .  .  . .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  2 

1843. — S.    D   Allen,    Benedict,    Cleveland,    Durfce,    Emerson,    Fowler,    McKenney,    Plant,    Spellman,    Van 

Wyck     JO 

1844 — Bigler,  Elmer,  Lee,  Marr,  H.  S.  Swan,  Tinker 6 

1845. — Budington,   J.    K.    H.    De   Forest,    Dunbar,    Ehrman,    Hobson,    Huntington,    McKinney,    Maghee, 

Manierre,  E.  W.  Miller,  F.  Moore,  Parke,  Shields,  Sterling,  Swayne,  Van  Schoonhoven,  Wesson,  17 
1846. — Bacon,  J.  F.  Bishop,  N.  A.  Chapman,  E.  L.  Clarke,  Crane,  Darling,  C.  Edwards,  T.  H.  Edwards, 

Hildeburn,  W  C.  Jennings,  McKinstry,  Newlands,   C.   E.   Smith,   Underwood 14 

1847.— Bartlett,    Lum,    J.    C.    Wilson 3 

1 848. — Hazard,    Nelson,    Rodman 3 

Total <i 


OCCUPATIONS  FOLLOWED— GRADUATES. 

Law. — Adee,  J.  M.  Allen,  Baldwin,  Betts,  Brainerd,  Brooks,  Butterfield,  Cannon,  Carrington,  Cartwright, 
Coe,    De    Forest,    Davenport,    Du    Bois,    Flanders,    Gamble,    Greenwood,    Hedge,    Keeler,    Lamb, 

Palmer,   Payne,   Reynolds,   G.   P.    Sheldon,   Showalter,    Skeels,    Small,   Stedman,   Taft,   Tallman, 

Turrell,  Weston,   Wilson 33 

Business. — C.   L.  Allen,   B.   Allen,   Bissell,   Bliss,   Brother,   Chapman,   Harper,   Hathorn,   Ingham,   Libbey, 

Morgan,  Robinson,  Stevenson,  Stoddard,  Swan,  Thomsen,  H.  W.  Walker,  Wetmore,  Wild,  Wright     20 
Theology. — Beard,   A.    B.    Brown,    Burrell,   Collins,    Day,   Dodd,    Dunning,   Hart,    Hartshorn,    Merriam, 

Partridge,    Vincent,    C.    S.    Walker 13 

Teachers. — L.   T.   Brown,   A.    S.   Clark,   Comstock,   Eddy,   Harding,  Jennings,   Johnston,   Morse,   Nolen, 

Perkins,    H.    C.    Sheldon,    Smith,    Spencer,    Warren 14 

Medicine. — Adams,  Alison,  T.  Allyn,  Curtis,  Drake,  Goodman,  Kitchel,  Landis,  Mann,  Moore,  Porter..     11 

Journalism. — Beecher,   Bishop,   Chittenden,   E.  W.   Clark,   Elliot,   Dexter 6 

Civil  Engineers. — Peck,   Seymour,   Strong 3 

Mining    Engineers    and    Metallurgists. — Hulst,    Woodward 2 

Lecturers. — Bruce,     Goodyear 2 

Total 104 

NON-GRADUATES. 

Business.— S.  D.  Allen,  Bartlett,  Bishop,  Chapman,  Clark,  Cleveland,  Crane,  Darling,  Durfee,  C.  Ed- 
wards, Elmer,  Foster,  Fowler,  Hazard,  Hildeburn,  Hobson,  Jennings,  Lee,  Lum,  McKinstry, 
Maghee,  Marr,  J.  H.  Miller,  Moore,  Nelson,  Parke,  Plant,  Pratt,  Shields,  Smith,  Sterling, 
Swayne,  Van  Schoonhoven,  Van  Wyck,  Wesson 35 

396 


Law. — Bigler,   T.   H.    Edwards,   Ehrman,   McKenney,   MeKinney,   Manierre,    Marks,    Mastin,    Newlands, 

Rodman,     Spellman,     Underwood 12 

Theology. — De  Forest,  Dunbar,  Emerson,  E.  \V.  Miller,  Reid,  Sprague,  Tinker 7 

Medicine. — Bacon,  Budington,  Huntington,   Swan,  Wilson 5 

Teaching. — Benedict,     Eastburn 2 

Total 61 


DEGREES  TAKEN— GRADUATES. 

A.  M. — Adee,  Alison,  Baldwin,  Betts,  Bliss,  Brainerd,  Cannon,  J.  H.  Chapman,  A  S.  Clark,  Comstock, 
Davenport,  Day,  Dexter,  Drake,  Du  Bois,  Eddy,  Elliot,  Harding,  Harper,  Jennings,  Landis, 
Mann,  Morse,  Xolen,  Payne,  Peck,  Porter,  Reynolds,  Robinson,  Seymour,  H.  C.  Sheldon, 
Skeels,    Smith,    Spencer,    J.    A.    Swan,    Taft,    Turrell,    Vincent,    C.    S.    Waker,    H.    VV.    Walker, 

Wetmore,     Wild,     Wilson,     Wright 44 

LL.B. — Adee,  C.  L  Allen,  Betts,  Brainerd,  Cannon,  Chittenden,  Coe,  Davenport,  Du  Bois,  Elanders, 
Gamble,  Greenwood,   Hedge,   Morse,   Payne,  G.   P.   Sheldon,   Small,   Stedman,  Turrell,   Wetmore, 

Wilson     21 

M.   D. — Adams,  Alison,  T  Allyn,  Curtis,  Drake,  Goodman,   Kitchel,  Landis,   Mann,   Porter 10 

S.  T.  B.— A.  B.  Brown,  Day,  Hartshorn,  Johnston.  H.  C.  Sheldon,  C.  S.  Walker 6 

C    E. — Eddy,    Peck,    Seymour,    Strong 4 

Ph.   D.— Eddy,   Hulst,   Perkins 3 

Ph.    B.— Eddy,    Hulst 2 

S.    I.    M.— Eddy I 

Total 91 

NON-GRADUATES. 

LL.  B. — Edwards,  Ehrman,  McKenney,  Manierre,  Marks,  Mastin,  Xewlands,  Rodman,  Spellman,  Under- 
wood,   Wesson 11 

S.  T.  B.— De  Forest,  Emerson,   E.  W   Miller,  Reid,   Sprague,  Tinker 6 

M.    D. — Bacon,    Budington,    Huntington,    Swan 4 

Total 21 


HAVE  BEEN  ABROAD— GRADUATES. 

Adams,  Alison,  T.  Allyn,  Betts,  Brainerd,  Bishop,  Bliss,  Bruce.  A.  S.  Clark,  Collins,  Curtis,  Dexter, 
Davenport,  Drake,  Du  Bois,  Dunning,  Elliot,  Goodyear,  Hathorn,  Johnston,  Lamb,  Libbey,  Mann, 
Merriam,  Payne,  Reynolds,  Spencer,  Strong,  Taft,  Turrell,  H.  W.  Walker,  Wetmore,  Woodward.     33 

NON-GRADUATES. 

Budington,   Chapman,   Clark,   Cleveland,   Crane,   De   Forest,   Foster,    .MeKinney,   Mastin,   Parke,    Swayne, 

Tinker,  Van  Schoonhoven,  Wesson '4 

Total    47 

397 


ATTENDANCE  AT  CLASS  REUNIONS. 


TRIENNIAL. 

GRADUATES.— Adams,  Adee,  T.  Allyn,  Beecher,  W.  H  Bishop,  Bissell,  Bliss,  Brainerd,  Brother, 
A.  B.  Brown,  L.  T.  Brown,  Cannon,  J  H.  Chapman,  Chittenden,  A.  S  Clark,  Coe, 
Collins,  Comstock,  Davenport,  Day,  De  Forest,  Dexter,  Dunning,  Eddy,  Elliot,  Goodman, 
Goodyear,  Greenwood,  Hart,  Hartshorn,  Hedge,  Hulst,  C.  B.  Jennings,  Johnston,  Keeler, 
Lamb,  Landis,  Merriam,  Morgan,  Morse,  Xolen,  Payne,  Peck,  Porter,  Robinson,  G.  P. 
Sheldon,  H.  C.  Sheldon,  Smith,  Spencer,  Stedman,  Stodard,  J.  A.  Swan,  Taft,  Tallman, 
C.  S.  Walker,  H.  \V.  Walker,  Warren,  Wild,  F.  H.  Wilson 59 

NOX-GRADUATES.— Bigler,  J.    F.   Bishop,   Budington,      Cleveland,     Durfee,    Fowler,    Sprague.    Van 

Schoonhoven     a 


Total . 


67 


SEXENNIAL. 


GRADUATES.— Adee,  C.  L.  Allen,  Betts,  Bliss,  Cannon,  Davenport,  Drake,  Elliot,  Hart,  Ingham,  C. 
B.  Jennings,  Lamb,  Morgan,  Morse,  Nolen,  Paj'ne,  Partridge,  Porter,  Reynolds,  Skeels, 
Tallman,  H.  W.  Walker,  Warren,  Wetmore,  Wild 25 

NON-GRADUATES. — Bacon,   Benedict,    Hobson,   Huntington,    Spellman 5 

Total     30 

DECENNIAL. 

GRADUATES. — Adee,  Alison,  C.  L.  Allen,  Baldwin,  Beecher,  Betts,  Bishop,  Brainerd,  Bruce,  Cannon, 
Carrington,  Cartwright,  Coe,  Collins,  Comstock,  Davenport,  Dexter,  Du  Bois,  Dunning, 
Eddy,  Elliot,  Gamble,  Harding,  Harper,  Hartshorn,  Ingham,  J^amb,  Mann,  Merriam, 
Morse,  Porter,  G.  P.  Sheldon,  Stedman,  J.  A.  Swan,  Tallman,  Turrell,  Vincent,  W^etmore, 
Wild     39 

NON-GRADUATES.— Bacon,     Spellman,     Sprague , 3 

Total 42 

QUINDECENNIAL. 

GRADATES. — Adee,    Brainerd,    Bruce,     Butterfield,    Clark,    Comstock,     Davenport,    Dexter,     Du    Bois, 

Elliot,  Hartshorn,  Hulst,  Mann,  Morgan,  Morse,  Stedman,  Swan,  Tallman,  Wild 19 

NON-GRADUATES.— Bacon,     Spellman 2 

Total 21 

398 


VIGINTENNIAL. 

GRADUATES.— Adee,  Baldwin,  Beard,  Beecher.  Bishop,  Bissell,  Brainerd,  Brooks,  Bruce,  Burrell, 
Carrington,  J.  H.  Chapman,  Chittenden,  Clark,  Coe,  Conistock,  Davenport,  Dexter,  Dodd, 
Du  Bois,  Elliot,  Gamble,  Goodman,  Greenwood,  Harper,  Hartshorn,  Hedge,  Ingham, 
Lamb,  Mann,  Merriam,  Morgan,  Morse,  \olen.  Peck,  Porter,  G.  P.  Sheldon,  H.  C.  Shel- 
don, Skeels,  Stedman,  J.  A.  Swan,  Tallman,  Turrell,  X'incent,  Weston,  Wetmore,  Wild, 
Wilson,    Wright    4p 

NON-GRADUATES.— BacoH,   Benedict,    Bigler,   T   H.    Edwards,    Hazard,    Marks,    McKinney,    Spellman, 

Sprague     9 

Total 58 

QUARTER-CENTURY  MEETING. 

GRADUATES. — Adee,  Alison,  Baldwin,  Beecher,  Bissell,  Brainerd,  Burrell,  Butterfield,  Carrington, 
Chapman,  Chittenden,  Clark,  Comstock,  Davenport,  Dexter,  Dodd,  Du  Bois,  Dunning, 
Greenwood,  Harper,  Hartshorn,  Hedge,  Ingham,  Lamb,  Merriam,  Morgan,  Morse,  Nolen, 
Perkins,  G.  P.  Sheldon,  Small,  Smith,  Stedman,  Tallman,  Turrell,  Walkei,  Weston, 
Wetmore,     Wild,     Wright 40 

NON-GRADUATES.— Bacon,    Bigler,    Easlburn,    Edwards,    McKinney,    Nelson,    Spellman 7 

Total 47 

TRIGINTENNIAL. 

GRADUATES.— Adee,  Alison,  J.  W.  Allen,  Baldwin,  Beard,  Bissell,  Brainerd,  Bruce,  Burrell,  Carring- 
ton, Clark,  Coe,  Comstock,  Davenport,  Dexter,  De  Forest,  Dodd,  Flanders,  Goodman, 
Goodyear,  Hartshorn,  Hathorn,  Hedge,  Ingham,  Mann,  Morse,  Nolen,  Perkins,  Showalter, 
Small,   Spencer,   Stedman,  J.  A.   Swan,  Tallman,  Turrell,   C.   A.  Walker,  Wild 37 

NON-GRADUATES. — Bigler,  N.  A  Chapman,  Nelson,  Parke,  Spellman,  Sprague,  Van  Schoonhover. . . .       7 
Total 44 

AT  ONE  OR  OTHER  OF  THE  SEVEN  REUNIONS. 

GRADUATES.— Adams,  Adee,  Alison,  C  L.  Allen,  T.  Allyn,  Baldwin,  Beard,  Beecher,  Betts, 
Bishop,  Bliss,  Bissell,  Brainerd,  Brooks,  Bruce,  A.  B.  Brown,  L.  T.  Brown,  Burrell, 
Cannon,  J.  H.  Chapman,  Chittenden,  A.  S  Clark,  Carrington,  Cartwright,  Coe,  Collins, 
Com.stock,  Davenport,  Day,  De  Forest,  Dexter,  Dodd,  Drake,  Du  Bois,  Dunning,  Eddy, 
Elliot,  Gamble,  Goodman,  Goodyear,  Greenwood,  Harding,  Hart,  Harper,  Hartshorn, 
Hathorn,  Hedge,  Hulst,  Ingham,  Jennings,  Johnston,  Keeler,  Lamb,  Landis,  Mann,  Mer- 
riam, Morgan,  Morse,  Nolen,  Payne,  Partridge,  Peck,  Porter,  Reynolds,  Robinson, 
G.  P.  Sheldon,  H.  C.  Sheldon,  Showalter,  Skeels,  Smith,  Spencer,  Stedman,  Stoddard, 
J.  A.  Swan,  Taft,  Tallman,  Turrell,  Vincent,  C.  S.  Walker,  H.  W.  Walker,  Warren, 
Weston,   Wetmore,   Wild,   Wilson,   Wright 86 

399 


NON-GRADUATES.— Bacon,  Bigler,  Bishop,  Benedict,  Budington,  N.  A  Chapman,  Cleveland,  Durfee, 
Eastburn,  T.   H.   Edwards,   Fowler,   Hazard,      Hobson,    Huntington,    Marks,    McKinney, 

Parke,  Spellman,  Sprague,  Van  Schoonhoven 20 

Total 1 06 


AT  ALL  SEVEN  REUNIONS. 

GRADUATES.— Adee,   Davenport,   Morse,  Tallman,  Wild 


SUMMARY. 

GRADUATES.— Adams,  Alison,  Adee,  B.  Allen,  C.  L.  Allen,  J.  M.  Allen,  T.  Allyn,  Baldwin,  Beard, 
Beecher,  Betts,  W.  H.  Bishop,  Bissell,  Bliss,  Brainerd,  Brooks,  Brother,  A.  B.  Brown,  L.  T. 
Brown,  Bruce,  Burrell,  Butterfield,  Cannon,  Carrington,  Cartwright,  Chapman,  Chittenden,  A.  S. 
Clark,  E.  W.  Clarke,  Coe,  Collins,  Comstock,  Curtis,  Day,  R.  E.  DeForest,  Davenport,  Dexter, 
Dodd,  Drake,  Du  Bois,  Dunning,  Eddy,  Elliot,  Flanders,  Gamble,  Goodman,  Goodyear,  Greenwood, 
Harding,  Harper,  Hart,  Hartshorn,  Hathorn,  Hedge,  Hulst,  Ingham,  C.  B.  Jennings,  Johnston, 
Keeler,  Kitchel,  Lamb,  Landis,  Libby,  Mann,  Merriam,  Moore,  Morgan,  Morse,  Nolen,  Palmer, 
Partridge,  Payne,  Peck,  Perkins,  Porter,  Reynolds,  Robinson,  Seymour,  G.  P.  Sheldon,  H.  C. 
Sheldon,  Showalter,  Skeels,  Small,  B.  Smith,  Spencer,  Stedman,  Stevenson,  Stoddard,  Strong,  J.  A. 
Swan,  Taft,  Tallman,  Thomsen,  Turrell,  Mncent,  C.  S.  Walker,  H.  W.  Walker,  Warren,  Weston, 
VVetmore,  Wild,  F.  H.  Wilson,  Woodward,  Wright 104 

NON-GRADUATES.— S.  D.  Allen,  Bacon,  "Bartlett,  Benedict,  Bigler,  J.  F.  Bishop,  Budington,  N.  A. 
Chapman,  E.  L.  Clark,  Cleveland,  Crane,  Darling,  J.  K.  H.  De  Forest,  Dunbar,  Durfee,  Eastburn, 
C.  Edwards,  T.  H.  Edwards,  Ehrman,  Elmer,  Emerson,  Foster,  Fowler,  Hazard,  Hildeburn,  Hobson, 
Huntington,  W.  C.  Jennings,  Lee,  Lum,  McKenney,  McKinney,  McKinstry,  Maghee,  Manierre, 
Marks,  Marr,  Mastin,  E.  W.  Miller,  J.  H.  Miller,  F.  Moore,  Nelson,  Newlands,  Parke,  Plant,  Pratt, 
Reid,  Rodman,  Jr.,  Shields,  C.  E.  Smith,  Spellman,  Sprague,  Sterling,  H.  S.  Swan,  Swayne,  Tinker, 
Underwood,  Van  SchoonhovAr,  Van  Wyck,  Wesson,  J.  C.  Wilson 61 

Entered  Commencement  of  Freshman  Year. — Adee,  B.  Allen,  C.  L.  Allen,  J.  M.  Allen,  T. 
Allyn,  Bacon,  Bartlett,  Beecher,  Benedict,  Betts,  Bigler,  J.  F.  Bishop,  Bissell,  Bliss,  Brainerd, 
Brooks,  Brother,  A.  B.  Brown,  L.  T.  Brown,  Bruce,  Budington,  Burrell,  Butterfield,  Cannon,  Car- 
rington, N.  A.  Chapman,  Chittenden,  A.  S.  Clark,  E.  L.  Clark,  Cleveland,  Coe,  Collins,  Comstock, 
Crane,  Darling,  Davenport,  Day,  Dexter,  Dodd,  Drake,  Du  Bois,  Dunbar,  Durfee,  Eastburn.  Eddy, 
C.  Edwards,  T.  H.  Edwards,  Ehrman,  Elliot,  Elmer,  Emerson,  Flanders,  Foster.  Foivler,  Gamble, 
Goodman,    Goodyear,    Griswold,    Harding,    Harper,   Hart,   Hartshorn,    Hathorn,   Hazard,    Hildeburn, 

400 


Hobson,  Hulst,  Huntington,  Ingham,  IV.  C.  Jennings,  Keeler,  Kitchel,  Lamb,  Lee,  Libbey,  Lu 
McKenney,  McKinney,  Maghee,  Manierre,  Mann,  Marks,  Marr,  Mastin,  Merriam,  E.  IV.  Miller,  J. 
H.  Miller,  F.  Moore,  J.  A.  Moore,,  Morgan,  Morse,  Nelson,  Newlands,  Nolen,  Palmer,  Partridge, 
Payne,  Peck,  Plant,  Pratt,  Reid.  Reynolds.  Robinson,  Rodman,  G.  P.  Sheldon,  Shields,  Skeels, 
Small,  B.  Smith,  C.  E.  Smith.  Spellman,  Spencer,  Spragae,  Stedman,  Sterling,  Stevenson,  Stod 
dard.  Strong,  H.  S.  Swan,  J.  A.  Swan,  Swayne,  Taft,  Tallman,  Thomsen,  Tinker,  Turrell,  Under- 
wood, Van  Schoonhoven,  Van  IVyck,  Vincent,  H.  W.  Walker,  Warren,  IVesson,  Wetmorc,  Wild 
F.  H.  Wilson,  /.  C.  Wil.'son,  R.  W.  Woodward. 

Entered  Durring  the  Same  Year. — Cartright,  /.  K.  H.  De  Forest.  Dunning,  Johnston,  Landis,  McKinstry, 
H.   C.   Sheldon,  Wright. 
Graduates,    87:    Non-Graduates,    59  Total,    146 

Entered  Sopho.more. — Alison,  5".  D.  Allen,  W.  H.  Bishop,  Curtis,  Parke,  Porter. 

Graduates,  4;   Non-Graduates,  2.  Total,  6 

Entered  Junior. — Adams,    Baldwin,    Beard,   J.    H.    Chapman,    E.    W.    Clarke,    Greenwood,    Hedge,    Perkins, 
Seymour,    Showalter,    C.    S.    Walker,    Weston. 
Graduates,  12.  Total,   12 

Entered  Senior. — C.  B.  Jennings.     (Graduate)  Total,   i 

Left  Freshman  Year. — Bartlett,  J.  F.  Bishop,  Darling,  Drake,  C.  Edwards,  Ehrman,  Elmer,  Foster,  Fowler, 
Hildeburn,  McKenney,  Maghee,  Manierre,  Mastin,  E.  W.  Miller,  Reid,  Shields,  C.  E.  Smith, 
Tinker,  Wesson,  J.  C.   Wilson.  Total,   21 

Left  Sophomore  Year. — S.  D.  Allen,  Bacon,  Bigler,  Budington,  Davenport,  J.  K.  H.  De  Forest,  Dunbar, 
Durfee,  Eastburn,  T.  H.  Edwards,  Emerson,  Harper,  Hazard,  Hobson,  Huntington,  W.  C.  Jennings, 
Lee,  McKinney,  McKinstry,  Marks,  Marr,  J.  H.  Miller,  F.  Moore,  Nelson,  Parke,  Plant,  Pratt, 
Rodman,  Spellman,  Sterling,  H.  S.  Swan,  Swayne,  Underwood,  Van  Schoonhoven,  Van  Wyck. 

Total,  35 

Left  Junior  Year.— Benedict,  Bliss,  E.  L.  Clark,  Crane,  Newlands,  Sprague.  Total,  6 

Left  Senior  Year. — N.  A.  Chapman,  H.  D.  Cleveland,  Lum.  Total,  3 

Had  been   connected  with  other  classes  in  Yale  before  entering  '67- 

'66 — Alison,  5.  D.  Allen,  Beard,  Cleveland,  Greenwood,  Hedge,   Huntington,  C.   B.  Jennings,  Johnston, 
McKinstry,    Parke,     Seymour,     B.     Smith. 
Graduates,    8;    Non-Graduates,    5.  Total,     13 

Have  been  graduated  with  other  classes  at  Yale  since  leaving  '67. 

'68 — Bacon,   E.   L.  Clark,  J.   K.  H.   De  Forest,   Eastburn,   Fowler,   McKinney,   E.   W.   Miller,   F.   Moore, 
Swayne,  Tinker.  Total,   10 

Have  been   connected  with  other  classes,   but   not  graduated. 

'68 — Drake,  T.  H.  Edwards,  Emerson,  Foster,  W.  C.  Jennings,  McKinney,  Manierre,  Wesson.       Total,  8 
'69— Z.  S.  Mastin.  Total.  1 

401 


CAME    TO    YALE    FROM    OTHER    COLLEGES. 


Adams, 

Baldwin, 

W.     H.     Bishop, 

J.  H.  Chapman, 

E.   W.    Clarke, 

Harper. 

C.   B.  Jennings, 

Ferkins, 

C.    S.    Walker, 

Weston, 

Graduates,   lo. 


Wesleyan     University, 

Western    Reserve    College, 

St.     John's     College, 

Wesleyan   University, 

Oberlin   College, 

Western   University  of  Pennsylvania. 

Williams      and      Princeton      Colleges. 

Knox   College, 

Marietta    College, 

Wesleyan    University, 


Delaware,    O. 
Hudson,    N.    Y. 
Fordham,     N.     Y. 
Middletown,   Conn. 
Oberlin,   O. 


Galesburg,    111. 

Ohio. 

Middletown,    Conn. 


Total,   ID 


WENT  FROM  YALE  TO  OTHER  COLLEGES. 


Hazard,  Washington     L^niversity, 

Huntington,  Trinity    College. 

Nelson,  Missouri    State    University, 

Reid.  University  of   Michigan, 


St.     Louis,     Mo. 
Hartford,    Conn. 


Total. 


'67 
'66. 

'67. 


RECAPITULATION. 


Entered,  Freshman,     Graduates. 

"  Sophomore,  " 

"  Junior,  " 

"  Senior, 


Non-Graduates 59 


Total 146 

"     6 


Left — Freshman 21 

"       Sophomore 35 

"       Junior 7 

"       Senior 2 


Members       of 

'66, 

BEFORE     ENTERING 

'67 

Grads. . . 

.      8 

??on-Grads 

Grads.  of 

'68, 

AFTER    LEAVING 

•67 

Non-Grads.  of 

'6.S, 

'• 

•67 

■'. 

"              "           OF 

•6g, 

"                 " 

'67 

" 

Came  to  Yale 

FROM 

OTHER  Colleges — 

Grads.  .  . 

.    10 

Non-Grads 

Total .  .  . 


Total. 


Left  Yale  for 


402 


PLACE   OF   BIRTH. 


New    York 

Connecticut 

Pennsylvania 

Ohio 

Massachusetts 

New   Hampshire 

Vermont 

England 

Alabama 

New  Jersey 

Dist.    Columbia 

Maryland 

Rhode  Island 

Iowa 

Kentucky 

Louisiana 

Maine 

Michigan 

Missouri 

Tennessee 

Wisconsin 

D.  VV.  Indies 

Delaware 

Illinois 

Indiana 

Mississippi 


Graduates 25 


Non-Graduates 


Total . 


38 
35 
14 
16 
9 
4 
4 
4 
4 


Total     Graduates. 


104     Non-Graduates   61     Total. 


165 


TIME  OF  BIRTH— GRADUATES. 


1837- 
1839. 
1840. 
1841. 
1842. 
1843- 


1844. 
1845. 
1846. 
1847- 


Total 


26 

28 


104 


1838. 
1840. 
184J. 

1842. 
1843- 


NON-GRADUATES. 

I         1844 


1846. 

1847. 


Total     61 


403 


Born 


IN  January — 

Graduates, 

II 

Non-( 

jrac 

"       February 

7 

" 

"       March 

8 

•' 

"       April 

7 

" 

"       May 

4 

" 

June 

II 

" 

"       July 

7 

" 

"       August 

10 

" 

"       September 

7 

" 

"       October 

8 

" 

"       November 

15 

" 

"       December 

9 

" 

Total, 

104 

MARRIED. 

Graduates, 

83 

Non 

Graduates, 

39 

4 
3 
5 
4 
4 
5 
3 
6 
7 
7 
6 
7 

61 


Total, 


8 
16 
10 
16 
14 
15 
21 
16 

i6s 


Total,       122 


CHILDREN. 

Graduates — Boys,        104  Girls,        125  Total,       229 

Non  "  "  25  "  33  "  s8 

DIED. 

Graduates     31 

Wives     of     Graduates 13 

Non-Graduates    18 

Wives     of     Non-Graduates 11 


Boys,   IS 


Boys,  8 


CHILDREN    OF    GRADUATES. 
Girls,  24 

CHILDREN    OF    NON-GRADUATES. 

Girls,   2 


Total,  39 


Total,   ID 


OCCUPATIONS.— GRADUATES. 


1870. 

Law      

Theology , 

Business 

Teaching 

Medicine 

Journalism 

Metallurgy    

Civil    Engineers. .  . 
Mining    Engineers. 

Architect 

Undecided 


34 
17 
19 
12 
9 
4 


1873. 

Law 

Business 

Theology    

Teaching 

Medicine 

Journalism 

Civil    Engineers.  .  . 

Metallurgy 

Mining    Engineers. 
Undecided 


Total     104 


Total 1 04 


404 


i887. 

Law 34 

Business 19 

Theology 13 

Teachers 14 

Medicine    9 

Journalism 6 

Civil    Engineers 3 

Mining    Engineers    2 

Metallurgists 2 

Lecturers 2 


1897- 

Law 

Business 2 

Theology i 


3« 


Teachers 

Medicine 

Journalism 

Civil    Engineers    . 
Mining    Engineers. 

Metallurgists    

Lecturers     


Total 1 04 


Total 104 


1873- 


NON-GRADUATES. 
1887. 


Business 35 

Law 10 

Medicine 6 

Theology 5 

Teachers    3 

Journalism    2 

Total 61 


Business 37 

Law 10 

Theology 7 

Medicine ; 4 

Teaching 2 

Journalism 1 


Total 61 


LATEST  ADDRESSES. 

GRADUATES. 

Georg-e  A.  Adee,  45  Pine  street.  New  York  City,  or  B.irtow-on-the-Sound,  N.  Y. 

Robert   H.   Alison,   M.    D.,   Ardmore,    Pa. 

Cornelius  L.  Allen,  Salem,  N.  Y. 

Hon.  James   M.   Allen,   305   Sansome  street,   San   Francisco,   Cal. 

Frank  L.   Baldwin,   Massillon,   Ohio. 

Henry    B.    Beard,    Minneapolis,    Minn. 

Eugene  F.   Beecher,    1337   Pacific  street,   Brooklyn,  N.   Y. 

Prof.  Wm.  Henry  Bishop,  68  High  street.   New   Haven,  Conn. 

Arthur   D.    Bissell,   People's  Bank,   Buffalo,   X.    Y. 

Ceo.   C.   Brainerd,   56  Wall  street.  New  York  City. 

J.  Judson  Brooks,  Pennsylvania  R.  R.  Co.,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Wm.  A.  Brother,  care  of  W.  A.  Peck,  Denver,  Col. 

Rev.  Anslem  B.  Brown,  1 15-16  Potomac  Block,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Hon.  Wallace  Bruce,  267  Stuyvesant  avenue,   Brooklyn,  X.   V. 

Rev.  David  J.  Burrell,  D.  D.,  248  West  75th  street,  Xew  York  City. 

Charles  K.  Cannon,  24  Newark  street,   Hoboken,   N.  J. 

George  R.   Carrington,  93-99   Nassau  street,   Xew   York  City. 

Jacob  A.   Cartwright,  26  and  27   Cole  Building,   Nashville,   Tenn. 


405 


John    H.    Chapman,    Deadwood,    S.    Dak. 

Henry  A.   Chittenden,  205    12th  street,   Oakland,  Cal. 

Abel  S.  Clark,  Asylum  for  Deaf  and  Dumb,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Chas.   G.   Coe,   5    Beekman  street,   New  York   City. 

Strong   Comstock,   Balmforth   Avenue   School,    Danbury,   Conn. 

Prof.   Lester  Curtis,   M.   D.,   35   34th  place,   Chicago,  111. 

Hon.  \Vm.  B.  Davenport,   189  Montagu  street,  Brooklyn,  X.   Y. 

Hon.  Robert  E.  DeForest,  502  State  street,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Rev.  Morton  Dexter,    14  Beacon  street,   Boston,   Mass. 

Rev.  Ira  S.  Dodd,  Riverdale.  X.   Y. 

Rev.  Albert  E.  Dunning,  D.  D.,  14  Beacon  street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Prof.  Henry  T.  Eddy,  Ph.   D.,  916  i6th  street,   Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Charles    S.    Elliot,    in    5th   avenue.    New   York    City. 

James  G.   Flanders,    161    Prospect  avenue,   Milwaukee,   Wis. 

Chas.  H.  Goodman,  M.  D.,  3329  Washington  avenue,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Prof.    Wm.    H.    Goodyear,    Curator,    Brooklyn   Institute,    Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 

Wilder    B.    Harding,    Southwick,    Mass. 

Orlando   M.   Harper,   69   Worth   street.   New  York  City. 

John  M.   Hart,    no  O'Farrell   street,    San   Francisco,   Cal. 

Rev.    Joseph    W.    Hartshorn,    Woodbridge,    Conn. 

Frank  H.   Hathorn,   Saratoga   Springs,   N.   Y. 

Hon.  Thomas  Hedge,  Burlington,  la. 

Nelson   P.    Halst,   Ph.    D.,    395    East  Water   street,    Milwaukee,   Wis. 

Wm.    H.    Ingham,    Girard    Trust    Company,    Philadelphia,    Pa. 

Chas.   B.   Jennings,   Nathan   Hale   Grammar   School,    New   London,   Conn. 

Samuel    Keeler,    4    Warren    street.    New    York    City. 

Luther  Hart   Kitchel,   M.    D.,   Alden,   N.   Y. 

Albert  E.  Lamb,  824  President  street,  and   189  Montague  street,  Brooklyn,   N.   Y. 

Frank  Libbey,  631  i6th  street  N.  W.  and  New  York  avenue   and  6th  street,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Matthew  D.  Mann,  M.  D.,  37  Allen  street,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

James  F.   Merriam,   Springfield,   Mass. 

William   H.    Morse,    Library   of   Congress,    Washington,    D.    C. 

A.   Eugene  Nolen,   Fitchburg,   Mass. 

Wm.   A.   Peck,    1643   Champa  street,   Denver,   Col. 

Prof.    Geo.    H.    Perkins,    Ph.    D.,    Burlington,   Vt. 

P.   Brynberg  Porter,  M.   D.,    150  West  84th  street,   New  York  City. 

Hon.   Horatio  Seymour,  Marquette,   Mich. 

Geo.   P.   Sheldon,  47  Cedar  street.   New  York  City,  and  Greenwich,   Conn. 

Prof.   Henry   C.    Sheldon,   Boston   L'niversity,   Boston,   Mass. 

Frederick  I.  Small,  Little  Falls,  N.  Y. 

Prof.   Benjamin  Smith,  Plymouth,  Pa. 

James   M.    Spencer,    Bayerische   Vereins    Bank.    Munich,    Bavaria. 

Ernest  G.   Stedman,   7  Nassau  street,   New  York   City. 

James  A.  Swan,  Newport,  R.  I. 

J.   Hazleton   Tallman,   care  of  Geo.   W.   :Moore  &  Co.,   Hartford,   Conn. 

William  Thomsen,  8  East  Lombard  street,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Edgar  A.   Turrell,   170  Broadway,  New  York   City. 

Rt.   Rev.   Boyd  \'incent,   D.   D.,  99  West  4th  street,   Cincinnati,  O. 

Rev.   Chas.  S.  Walker,  .\mherst,  Mass. 

Rev.    Albert    Warren,    Lake    Benton,    Minn. 

406 


Homer    Weston,    Syracuse,    N.    V. 

Hon.    Geo.    P.    Wetmore,    Newport,    R.   I. 

Isaac  J.  Wild,  80  Crown  street,   New  Haven,  Conn. 

Hon.  Francis  H.  Wilson,  5  IJeekinan  street,  Xew  York  City,  or  Post  Office,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Richard   W.   Woodward,   2   Park   Terrace,   Hartford,   Conn. 

NON-GRADUATES. 

Dr.  W.  T.  Bacon,  3  Pratt  street,  Hartford,  Conn. 

F.   D.   Benedict,  Wilton,   Conn. 

C.   S.   Bigler,   Harrisburg,   Pa. 

Dr.  W.  G.  Budington,  222  West  23rd  street.  New  York  City. 

N.  A.  Chapman,  Englewood,   N.  J. 

E.   L.    Clark,   Adrian,   Mich. 

H.  D.  Cleveland,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

J.  K.  H.  De  Forest,  Sendai,  Japan. 

Geo.   Eastburn,  Northwest  corner  Broad  and  Fairmount  avenue,   Philadelphia,   Pa. 

Charles  Edwards,   Sliobert,   Carqueville  Litho.   Co.,   Chicago,   111. 

T.  H.  Edwards,  Hagerstown,  Md. 

JtJ.   F.   Ehrman,   Cincinnati,   O. 

B.  H.  Emerson,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

B.  A.  Fowler,  Needham,  Mass. 
Nathaniel   Hazard,   Kirkville,   Mo. 
/.  W.  Hobson,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
W.    A.    McKinney,    Binghamton,    N.    Y. 
J.  M.  McKinstry,  Cleveland,  O. 

C.  R.  Marks,  Sioux  City,  la.  '^^Vf-  »>»■ 
E.    W.    Miller,    Carson    City,    Mich.                                                      ^^^CALJR>tga< 
Frank    Moore,    St.    Clair,    Mich. 
L.    C.    Nelson.    St.    Louis,    Mo. 
Hon.  F.  G.  Newlands,  Chevy  Chase,  Md. 
C.   A.    Park,   Mt.   Vernon,   Ind. 
C.   C.   Spellman,   Springfield,  Mass. 
Rev.  F.  M.  Sprague,  Tampa,  1-la. 
L.     Sterling,     Bridgeport,     Conn. 
H.    S.    Swan,    Middleboro,    Mass. 

Wm.   A.    Underwood,   27   William   street.    New   York   City. 
E.  Van  Schoonhoven,   Lansingburg,   X.   Y. 
J.    T     Van   Wyck,    Los   Angeles,    Cal. 

Frederick  W^esson,  care  of  Hoadley  &  Co.,   7;   William  street.   New  York  City. 
J.    C.    Wilson,    1437    Walnut    street,    Philadelphia,    Pa. 


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